Chickering Hall (Boston, 1901)

Chickering Hall, Huntington Ave., Boston, 1900s

Chickering Hall (1901–1912) was an auditorium in Boston, Massachusetts, located on Huntington Avenue in the Back Bay.[1] It stood adjacent to Horticultural Hall. Tenants included the Emerson College of Oratory[2] and D.M. Shooshan's "Ladies' and Gents' Cafe."[3] In 1912 it became the St. James Theatre, and later the Uptown Theatre. The building existed until 1963, when it was demolished.[4]

Performances

• Opening concert, with Antoinette Szumowska, Pol Plançon, Kneisel Quartet[5][6]
• Lucy Gates, soprano[7]
• Florizel, boy violinist[8]
• Ossip Gabrilowitsch, pianist[9]
• The Merchant of Venice, with Ben Greet English Co.[10]
• W. B. Yeats plays, with Margaret Wycherly[11]
• Beatrice Herford[12]

Images

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  Chickering Hall postcard
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  Floorplan
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  Inside Chickering Hall c. 1903
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  1908 map of Boston including Chickering Hall
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  Ad in the Boston Globe, Feb. 16, 1902
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  Advertisement, 1904

See also

• Chickering Hall, Boston (1883)
• Chickering and Sons

References

1. Chickering Hall, no.239 Huntington Ave. Wilson's annual reference book of Greater Boston ..., [Boston?], 1904, OL 14048417M
2. Advertisement in Atlantic Monthly, June 1910
3. Wilson's annual reference book of Greater Boston ..., [Boston?], 1904, OL 14048417M
4. Bostonian Society. Photograph of Uptown Theater Archived September 19, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, 239 Huntington Street. View of the Prudential Center Tower, ca. 1962-1963. "Demolition (replaced by Christian Science Center). Originally the Chickering Hall (built 1900-1901), later Saint James Theater."
5. "Chickering Hall opening," Boston Globe, January 27, 1901; "Brilliant audience: auspicious opening of new Chickering Hall," Boston Globe, Feb. 9, 1901
6. The commemoration of the founding of the house of Chickering & Sons upon the eightieth anniversary of the event, 1823-1903. Boston: Chickering & Sons, 1904
7. Boston Globe, Feb. 16, 1902
8. Boston Globe, Feb. 16, 1902
9. Boston Globe, March 15, 1903
10. Boston Globe, Feb. 6, 1904
11. Boston Globe, Nov. 26, 1904
12. Boston Evening Transcript, April 14, 1910

External links

• Historic New England owns materials related to Chickering Hall
• Boston Public Library. Photo of Chickering Hall, Huntington Ave., 1911
• Bostonian Society.
  • Photograph of street-level view south 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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