Beethoven Hall (Boston)

Beethoven Hall (1874–78) was an auditorium in Boston, Massachusetts, that hosted musical performances and other entertainments in the 1870s.[1] It sat on Washington Street, near Boylston Street, in today's Boston Theater District/Chinatown neighborhood.[2] The architect was William Washburn,[3] who had also designed the first National Theatre and the second Tremont Temple.

In 1879 the renovated hall re-opened as the Park Theatre.[4] The building survived until 1990, when it was razed.[5]

  1. ^ Dwight's journal of music, Oct. 17, 1874
  2. ^ Boston business directory. 1879
  3. ^ City of Boston: Report of the Inspector of Buildings for the Year 1874 (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1875)
  4. ^ Moses King (1881), Kings Handbook of Boston, M. King, OCLC 778544, OL 23442502M
  5. ^ Sweeney, Emily. Once a relic of the past, earthy art form sees a revival. Boston Globe, 09 April 2009