Chickering Hall (Boston, 1901)

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 and D.M. Shooshan's "Ladies' and Gents' Cafe."^[2][3] In 1912 it became the St. James Theatre, and later the Uptown Theatre. The building existed until 1963, when it was demolished.^[4]

Chickering Hall, Huntington Ave., Boston, 1900s

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