Chickering Hall (1901–1912) was an auditorium in Boston, Massachusetts, located on Huntington Avenue in the Back Bay.Chickering Hall, no.239 Huntington Ave. It stood adjacent to Horticultural Hall. Tenants included the Emerson College of Oratory and D.M. Shooshan's "Ladies' and Gents' Cafe."Advertisement in Atlantic Monthly, June 1910 In 1912 it became the St. James Theatre, and later the Uptown Theatre. The building existed until 1963, when it was demolished.Bostonian Society. Photograph of Uptown Theater , 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."
Performances Opening concert, with Antoinette Szumowska, Pol Plançon, Kneisel Quartet"Chickering Hall opening," Boston Globe, January 27, 1901; "Brilliant audience: auspicious opening of new Chickering Hall," Boston Globe, Feb. 9, 1901The commemoration of the founding of the house of Chickering & Sons upon the eightieth anniversary of the event, 1823-1903. Boston: Chickering & Sons, 1904 Lucy Gates, sopranoBoston Globe, Feb. 16, 1902 Florizel, boy violinistBoston Globe, Feb. 16, 1902 Ossip Gabrilowitsch, pianistBoston Globe, March 15, 1903 The Merchant of Venice, with Ben Greet English Co.Boston Globe, Feb. 6, 1904 W. B. Yeats plays, with Margaret WycherlyBoston Globe, Nov. 26, 1904 Beatrice HerfordBoston Evening Transcript, April 14, 1910
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See also Chickering Hall, Boston (1883) Chickering and Sons
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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)