St. Cecilia Society - Performance Venues

Performance Venues

In its long history the St. Cecilia Society has never owned or built its own performance space. During its concert era the society hired eight different venues in Charleston, ranging in size from approximately 1,000 to nearly 3,600 square feet (330 m2). Four of these structures still survive: the Great Room in the Exchange Building, the Long Room of McCrady's Tavern, the South Carolina Society Hall, and the first South Carolina State House (now Charleston County Courthouse). Between 1821 and 1861 the society held its events at St. Andrew's Hall. After the Civil War the society briefly used the South Carolina Society Hall and the Deutsche Freundschafts Bund Hall (now the home of Charleston's Washington Light Infantry). Since the early 1880s its events have taken place at Hibernian Hall.