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Snug Harbor Music Hall

Building in Staten Island, New York

The Snug Harbor Music Hall is a 686-seat Greek Revival auditorium on the grounds of Sailors' Snug Harbor in the New Brighton neighborhood of Staten Island, New York. It opened in July 1892, making it the second-oldest music hall in New York City, following Carnegie Hall. It was designed by the English immigrant architect Robert W. Gibson. Its inaugural performance was the cantata, "The Rose Maiden." In attendance were around 600 residents in plain wooden seats and 300 trustees with their guests in upholstered balcony seats. Entertainment in the decades that followed included the Georgia Minstrels and the Boston Ladies Schubert Quartet. It added film screenings in 1911 and sound projection in 1930. The building closed sometime in the 1970s when the campus faced a lack of funds and a decline in residents.

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