Chickering Hall (1901–1912) was an auditorium in
Boston
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,
Massachusetts
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, located on
Huntington Avenue
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in the
Back Bay
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. It stood adjacent to
Horticultural Hall. Tenants included the
Emerson College of Oratory and D.M. Shooshan's "Ladies' and Gents' Cafe." In 1912 it became the
St. James Theatre, and later the Uptown Theatre. The building existed until 1963, when it was demolished.
Performances
* Opening concert, with
Antoinette Szumowska,
Pol Plançon,
Kneisel Quartet
* Lucy Gates, soprano
*
Florizel, boy violinist
*
Ossip Gabrilowitsch, pianist
* ''
The Merchant of Venice
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'', with
Ben Greet
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Early life
The younger son of Captain William Gre ...
English Co.
*
W. B. Yeats
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plays, with
Margaret Wycherly
*
Beatrice Herford[Boston Evening Transcript, April 14, 1910]
Images
File:ChickeringHall ca1900s Boston MA postcard.png, Chickering Hall postcard
File:1904 ChickeringHall Boston.png, Floorplan
File:ChickeringHall ca1903 HuntingtonAve Boston.png, Inside Chickering Hall c. 1903
File:1908 ChickeringHall map Boston byBromley.png, 1908 map of Boston including Chickering Hall
File:1902 ChickeringHall BostonGlobe Feb16.png, Ad in the ''Boston Globe
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'', Feb. 16, 1902
Image:1904 Yeats ChickeringHall BostonGlobe Nov26.png, Advertisement, 1904
See also
*
Chickering Hall, Boston (1883)
*
Chickering and Sons
References
External links
Historic New Englandowns materials related to Chickering Hall
* Boston Public Library
Photo of Chickering Hall Huntington Ave., 1911
* Bostonian Society.
*
Photograph of street-level viewsouth of Symphony Hall, located at 240 Huntington Avenue, and Horticultural and Chickering Halls, located at 239 Huntington Avenue. Trolley bus tracks run in front of buildings.
* CinemaTreasures.org
Uptown Theatre 239 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 (successor to the St. James)
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Music venues completed in 1901
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