Chickering Hall (Boston, 1901)

Chickering Hall (1901–1912) was an auditorium in Boston, Massachusetts, located on Huntington Avenue in the Back Bay. 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, with Ben Greet English Co.
• W. B. Yeats plays, with Margaret Wycherly
• Beatrice Herford

Images

See also

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

References

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)