Orpheum Theatre (Boston)
The venue in 2008 | |
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| Address | 1 Hamilton Place Boston, Massachusetts |
| Coordinates | 42°21′22.4″N 71°3′39″W / 42.356222°N 71.06083°W |
| Public transit | Park Street station (MBTA) |
| Owner | The Druker Company, Ltd. |
| Operator | Crossroads Presents |
| Type | Music venue |
| Capacity | 2,700 |
| Construction | |
| Opened | 1852 |
| Renovated | 1915, 1971, 2009 |
| Architect | Thomas W. Lamb (1915) |
| Website | |
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The Orpheum Theatre is a music venue located at 1 Hamilton Place in Boston, Massachusetts. One of the oldest theaters in the United States as designed by Snell and Gregerson, it was built in 1852 and was originally known as the Boston Music Hall. It was the founding location of the New England Conservatory of Music in 1867 and it was the original home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from its founding in 1880. The concert hall was converted for use as a vaudeville theater in 1900. It was renamed the Orpheum Theatre in 1906. In 1915, the Orpheum was acquired by Loew's Theatres and substantially rebuilt. It operates as a mixed-use hall, primarily for live music concerts.
The theater has no connection with a different venue in Boston that operated as the Music Hall during 1962–1980, now known as the Wang Theatre.