Chickering Halls
The firm operated a concert hall in Boston in several successive locations:
- Chickering's building, Boston (ca.1850s), no.334 Washington St.
- Chickering's Hall, Boston (1860-1870), no.246 Washington St.
- Chickering Hall, Boston (1883-ca.1894), no.152 Tremont St., near West St.
- Chickering Hall, Boston (1901-ca.1912), Huntington Ave., corner of Massachusetts Ave.
The firm also ran the "Chickering Hall" concert auditorium in New York City at no.130 Fifth Avenue, 1875-1901. The building was situated on the north-west corner (not north-east contrary to some sources) of Fifth Avenue and West Eighteenth Street, and was the venue for Oscar Wilde's first lecture in America. .
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