Gordon's Olympia Theatre (Boston)
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, was established by Nathan H. Gordon of Olympia Theatres, Inc. Architect
Clarence Blackall Clarence Howard Blackall (February 3, 1857 – March 5, 1942) was an American architect who is estimated to have designed 300 theatres. Life and career Blackall was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1857. He attended college at the University of Ill ...
designed the building at no.658 Washington Street, near Boylston Street in the theatre district. It later became the Pilgrim Theater. The building was demolished in 1996. In late 1974, the Pilgrim Theater was the site of a drunken rant and press conference by
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chairman
Wilbur Mills Wilbur Daigh Mills (May 24, 1909 – May 2, 1992) was an American Democratic politician who represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1939 until his retirement in 1977. As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee from ...
at the height of his sex scandal with Fanne Foxe, which prompted his resignation from the committee shortly afterwards.


Images

Image:ClarenceBlackall theatre2 Boston AmericanArchitect March1915.png, Gordon's Olympia, Washington St., Boston, 1910s Image:ClarenceBlackall theatre8 Boston AmericanArchitect March1915.png, Interior, 1910s Image:1919 GordonsOlympia theatre BostonGlobe March25.png, Advertisement, 1919 Image:1919 GordonsOlympia Boston MotionPictureNews Nov15.png, Street entrance, 1919 Image:1919 GordonsOlympia Boston MotionPictureNews Dec6.png, Interior, 1919 Image:1920 Gordons theatres BostonGlobe May10.png, Advertisement, 1920


See also

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Combat Zone, Boston "Combat Zone" was the name given in the 1960s to the adult entertainment district in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. Centered on Washington Street (Boston), Washington Street between Boylston Street and Kneeland Street, the area was once the sit ...


References


External links

* Library of Congress
Drawing of Gordon's Olympia Theatre
Washington St. near Boylston St., 1921. * Bostonian Society
Photo of 634-658 1/2 Washington Street
ca. 1958, showing Pilgrim Theater * King, Loren (2013)
"Pilgrim"
''Caboose''.
"Escalators for Theaters"
(1913), ''American Architect''.

by Don L. Stradley, 2014. 1910s establishments in Massachusetts 20th century in Boston Boston Theater District Cultural history of Boston Former buildings and structures in Boston Former theatres in Boston 1996 disestablishments in Massachusetts Demolished buildings and structures in Boston Buildings and structures demolished in 1996 {{US-theat-struct-stub