Third Chestnut Street Theatre, 1211 Chestnut Street
Historical Images of Philadelphia Looney Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs
Item Info
Item No: pdcl00136
Title: Third Chestnut Street Theatre, 1211 Chestnut Street
Additional Title: North side of Chestnut Street at 12th
Historic Street Address:
1211 Chestnut Street
Historic Street Address: Washington Square West
Media Type: Scrapbooks
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes: "The Chestnut Street Theatre's long history began in 1794, when the theater was first built at Chestnut Street and 6th. The building shown here was the third theater known by this name, and was opened in 1863 after the second building (at 6th) was closed in 1855. Its manager was William Wheatley, a former actor turned manager (he also managed Niblo's Garden in New York, where he produced The Black Crook in 1866). The attraction featured in this photograph is Charles Hoyt's play A Day and a Night. The signboard near the entrance announced John J. McNally's A Reign of Error, with the Rogers Brothers. Next to the theater, left, is the old Concert Hall, which had become the location of the Free Library."--OPEP, p. 141.
Notes: The building with signs on front from top of third floor windows to bottom of second: "This week Hoyt's A Day and a Night". To the left of the theater is the Free Library and to the right, a piano shop with letters standing out from the building: "Steinway" both above the doorway and on the second floor. Streetcar tracks on Chestnut. Horse and carriage on street. Pole on the opposite side of the street with many electrical wires.
Bibliography: Reprinted in: Old Philadelphia in early photographs, 1839-1914/edited by Robert F. Looney. New York: Dover Publications, c1976.
Creation Year: 1898
Geocode Latitude: Geocode Longitude:-75.1604
Geocode Latitude:39.9504
Call Number: A917.481 P536 v.2
Subjects
- Animals
- Carriages & coaches
- Horses
- Public libraries
- Free Library of Philadelphia at 1217-1221 Chestnut St.
- Chestnut Street Theatre
- Posters
- Street railroad tracks
- Chestnut Street
- Washington Square
- Theaters
- Music stores
- Hoyt, Charles Hale, 1859-1900.
- McNally, John J., 1853 or 4-1931.
- Steinway & Sons
- Crump, John, 1827-1892, Architect
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