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Later known as the Star Novelty Theatre at the New Boylston Museum. [7] Lothrop acquired the 661, 663, and 665 Washington St properties, and the theatre and museum were substantially expanded into the new World's Museum (1885-1892); [8] also a theatre and dime museum. [9] Buckley's Minstrel Hall 1863 [1] Corner of Summer and Chauncey Streets
The RKO Boston Theatre was a movie theatre in Boston, Massachusetts, located at 616 Washington Street, near Essex Street in the Boston Theater District. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It opened as the Keith-Albee Boston Theatre on October 5, 1925.
The Somerville Theater is part of the Hobbs Building which was built in 1914 by Joseph Hobbs and designed by the firm of Funk & Wilcox of Boston.Designed for stage shows, vaudeville, opera, and motion pictures, the theater was only one of the highlights of the Hobbs Building, which also contained a basement café, basement bowling alley and billiards hall, the theater lobbies and ten ...
For more than ninety years the Cabot Street Cinema Theatre has been an important part of the Boston's North Shore community. Harris and Glover Ware, two brothers and former vaudeville musicians from Marblehead, Massachusetts, built the Cabot eight years after the construction of their first Beverly theater, the Larcom Theatre.
The Boston Opera House, also known as the Citizens Bank Opera House, [1] is a performing arts and esports venue located at 539 Washington St. in Boston, Massachusetts.It was originally built as the B.F. Keith Memorial Theatre, a movie palace in the Keith-Albee chain.
The Plymouth Theatre (1911–1957) of Boston, Massachusetts, was located on Stuart Street in today's Boston Theater District. [ nb 1 ] Architect Clarence Blackall designed the building for Liebler & Co. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Performers included Henry Jewett , [ 4 ] Bill "Bojangles" Robinson , 8-year-old Sammy Davis Jr. , [ 5 ] and Bette Davis . [ 6 ]
On March 24, 1894, Keith opened a theatre next the Bijou named "B.F. Keith’s Theatre". In 1901, it was renamed the "Bijou Opera House". The Bijou would later be named "Bijou Dream" when it became a movie house in 1927, and also became known as Intown sometime after that. [12] The Bijou was a distinct theatre for a couple of reasons.
The Paramount opened in 1932 as a 1,700-seat, single-screen movie theatre. It was one of the first movie houses in Boston to play talking motion pictures. The theatre was named after its original owner, Paramount Pictures. It closed in 1976 and most of the Art Deco interior decoration was destroyed in the 1980s during the removal of asbestos. [2]