Bijou Theatre (Boston)

Bijou Theatre
Bijou Opera House, Bijou Dream Theatre, B.F. Keith's Bijou Theatre, RKO Bijou Theatre, Intown Theatre
Bijou interior, 19th century
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Address545 Washington Street
Boston, Massachusetts
United States
OperatorEmerson College
Construction
OpenedDecember 11, 1882 (1882-12-11)
Closed1943
Years active1882-1943
ArchitectBradlee, Winslow & Wetherell

The Bijou Theatre (1882–1943) in Boston, Massachusetts, occupied the second floor of 545 Washington Street near today's Theatre District.[1][2] Architect George Wetherell designed the space, described by a contemporary reviewer as "dainty."[3][4] Proprietors included Edward Hastings, George Tyler, and B.F. Keith.[5][6] Around the 1900s, it featured a "staircase of heavy glass under which flowed an illuminated waterfall."[7] The Bijou "closed 31 December 1943 and was razed in 1951."[8] The building's facade still exists.[9] It is currently a pending Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission.

  1. ^ Boston Almanac and Business Directory. 1887, 1891, 1894
  2. ^ Charles Baxton (1884), Boston and the Back Bay, Boston, Mass: Reed & Lincoln, OL 13997009M
  3. ^ Richard Herndon (1892), Boston of To-Day, Boston: Post Pub. Co., OCLC 4430662, OL 7162628M
  4. ^ U.S. Dept. of the Interior. National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: [pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/64000273.pdf Boston Theatre Multiple Resource Area]. 1979. Retrieved 2012-03-16
  5. ^ Historical review of the Boston Bijou Theatre: with the original casts of all the operas that have been produced at the Bijou, Boston: Edward O. Skelton, 1884, OL 24140253M
  6. ^ "A High-Class Motion Picture House." Photo-Era v.27, no.2, August 1911
  7. ^ Boston Opera House. The Boston Opera House Site Archived 2013-12-24 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2012-03-16
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference cullen was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ Adams House Annex, no.543-547 Washington Street, Boston, USA. "Facade built 1858-1850; interior completely remodeled 1881-82." Boston Redevelopment Authority. (1987), Midtown cultural district plan: historic building survey