Chickering Hall (1875 - 1893) was a concert and music hall in Manhattan, New York City, New York, located on Fifth Avenue.Appleton's General Guide to the United States and Canada. (1891). United Kingdom: Black.
History Chickering Hall, commissioned by Chickering & Sons, was situated at the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and 18th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It was designed by the American architect George B. Post and F.C. Murray.Stokes, I. N. P. (1915). The iconography of Manhattan Island. United States: Dodd. The building housed a music store, piano warehouse, and concert hall. Above the ground-level salesroom, its 1,450-seat auditorium, located on the second and third floors, hosted concerts, lectures, and conferences.Ingersoll, E. (1891). A Week in New York. United States: Rand, Mc Nally & Company.
At the inauguration of the new music hall on November 15, 1875, German pianist Hans von Bülow gave his first New York City performance.
The concert hall was managed by Edward H. Colell in 1891 and was still under the ownership of Chickering and Sons.New York Amusement Gazette. (1891). United States: F. T. Low.. In 1893, the building was entirely repurposed into a retail space for John Wanamaker's department store, taking over city piano sales.
The original Chickering Hall building in New York City was sold and demolished in the early 1900s. Chickering & Sons merged with the American Piano Company who later established a new building in the borough of Manhattan on 57th Street under the same name in 1924.Poor's...1925. (1925). United States: Poor's Publishing Company.
Events & Performances Hans von Bülow piano concert, November 15-24, 1875 5th International Congress of Ophthalmology, September 12-14, 1876Report of the Fifth International Ophthalmological Congress: Held in New York, Sept. 1876.... (1877). United States: D. Appleton & Company. Robert G. Ingersoll lecture, February 3, 1878Ingersoll, R. G. (1878). "Hell": Lecture [at] Chickering Hall, New York, February 3d, 1878. United States: E. McCormack. Chamber music of New York Philharmonic with Ema Pukšec, Sebastian Bach Mills, Ferdinand Quentin Dulcken, and more, April 1, 1879Concert program, 1 Apr 1879, Program ID 10110, New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives. https://archives.nyphil.org/index.php/artifact/f5e83c34-26a9-4027-923b-51cef82b0bb3-0.1 15th Annual Commencement of the New York College of Dentistry, February 23, 1881The Dental Cosmos. (1881). United States: S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Company. Oscar Wilde, English Renaissance lecture, January 9, 1882Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections Volume I. (1979). United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan UK. Kneisel Quartet, Pol Plançon, Antoinette Szumowska, and more, February 8, 1898Bradley, W., Plançon, P. (1898). Program: Opening Concert Friday Evening, February 8th. United States: Chickering & Sons. Frederic Farrar lecture, October 29, 1885Farrar, F. W. (1866). Temperance Address, Delivered at Chickering Hall, New York, October 29, 1885. United States: John B. Alden.
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See also Chickering Hall (Boston, 1883) Chickering Hall (Boston, 1901) Chickering and Sons
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