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Chickering Hall (1875 - 1893) was a concert and music hall in Manhattan, New York City, New York, located on Fifth Avenue.




History


Chickering Hall, commissioned by Chickering & Sons, was situated at the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and 18th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It was designed by the American architect George B. Post and F.C. Murray. Opening on November 15, 1875, it housed a music store, piano warehouse, and concert hall. Above the ground-level salesroom, its 1,450-seat auditorium, located on the second and third floors, hosted concerts, lectures, and conferences.
The concert hall was managed by Edward H. Colell in 1891 and still under the ownership of Chickering and Sons. In 1893, the building was entirely repurposed into a retail space for John Wanamaker's department store, taking over city piano sales.
The original Chickering Hall building in New York City was sold and demolished in the early 1900s. Chickering & Sons merged with the American Piano Company who later established a new building in the borough of Manhattan on 57th Street under the same name in 1924.




Events & Performances


5th International Congress of Ophthalmology, September 12-14, 1876
Robert G. Ingersoll lecture, February 3, 1878
Chamber music of New York Philharmonic with Ema Pukšec, Sebastian Bach Mills, Ferdinand Quentin Dulcken, and more, April 1, 1879
15th Annual Commencement of the New York College of Dentistry, February 23, 1881
Oscar Wilde, English Renaissance lecture, January 9, 1882
Kneisel Quartet, Pol Plançon, Antoinette Szumowska, and more, February 8, 1898
Frederic Farrar lecture, October 29, 1885




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See also


Chickering Hall (Boston, 1883)
Chickering Hall (Boston, 1901)
Chickering and Sons




References

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