Wikimedia Commons

File:BALCONY AND AUDITORIUM CEILING, LOOKING FROM STAGE - B. F. Keith Memorial Theatre, 539 Washington Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA HABS MASS,13-BOST,69-17.tif

Original file ‎(4,971 × 3,969 pixels, file size: 18.82 MB, MIME type: image/tiff)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary edit

BALCONY AND AUDITORIUM CEILING, LOOKING FROM STAGE - B. F. Keith Memorial Theatre, 539 Washington Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Title
BALCONY AND AUDITORIUM CEILING, LOOKING FROM STAGE - B. F. Keith Memorial Theatre, 539 Washington Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Description
Lamb, Thomas W; Keith, Benjamin Franklin
Depicted place Massachusetts; Suffolk County; Boston
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS MASS,13-BOST,69-17
Credit line
This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

Notes
  • Significance: The B.F. Keith Memorial Theatre is one of the finest examples of the moving picture palace at its highest stage of development. Designed in the grand Baroque manner by Thomas W. Lamb, one of the foremost theatre architects of his day, it was erected at the behest of Edward Franklin Albee (1857-1930) to memorialize his late partner, Benjamin Franklin Keith (1846-1914), co-founder of the Keith-Albee theatres and originator of the refined vaudeville entertainment that flourished from the turn of the century until the 1930s. The theatre gained added significance in 1978, when it was acquired by the Opera Company of Boston through the initiative of Artistic Director Sarah Caldwell as the home of grand opera for a major metropolitan area.
  • Survey number: HABS MA-1078
  • Building/structure dates: 1928 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1945 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1965 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ma0460.photos.076369p
Permission
(Reusing this file)
Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
Object location42° 21′ 29.99″ N, 71° 03′ 37.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current19:17, 20 July 2014Thumbnail for version as of 19:17, 20 July 20144,971 × 3,969 (18.82 MB)Fæ (talk | contribs)GWToolset: Creating mediafile for Fæ. HABS 20 July 2014 (1401:1600)

You cannot overwrite this file.

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:BALCONY_AND_AUDITORIUM_CEILING,_LOOKING_FROM_STAGE_-_B._F._Keith_Memorial_Theatre,_539_Washington_Street,_Boston,_Suffolk_County,_MA_HABS_MASS,13-BOST,69-17.tif&oldid=866231997"