Tremont Theatre, Boston (1889)
A traveller's guidebook described the space in 1899: "The auditorium is 75 feet high of the same width and 80 feet deep. It is fashioned on the plan of a mammoth shell. ... The ten oddly fashioned private boxes on either side of the proscenium give a novel effect to the interior. The decoration of the main ceiling is modernized Renaissance treated in Gobelin tapestry effect and the coloring of the walls is in harmonizing shades. The stage is 73 by 45 feet, with a height of 69 feet to the rigging loft. The house has 2,000 seats."
"In 1947 the Tremont became a movie theater named the Astor and briefly, before its demise, a juice bar." "After a fire in 1983, the building was demolished." "AMC Boston Common 19 Movie Theater now occupies the site."
Performances
1880s–1890s
1900s
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1910s
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Images
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Advertisement for "the cool Tremont," 1902
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Tremont Street, 1903, across from Boston Common. (Tremont Theatre 6th building from right)
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Portrait of John B. Schoeffel, one of the proprietors
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Performance of "The Stolen Story" at the Tremont Theatre, c. 1906
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Programme from "The Student King," 1906
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Detail of 1911 map of Boston, showing Tremont Theatre