The Building and the Site. The Academy of Music could seat about 1400 persons on the second floor of the building it occupied; stores filled the ground floor. It stood on North Street just north of Genesee Street, abutting the Owasco River. That placed it about 200 feet north of the Orestes Brownson newspaper office location, today’s Phoenix Building.
- 1857 - Built by Jos. H. Baumgardner [1]
- 1857 - December 18, Dedicated, Colonel Benjamin Eason presided and speeches and toasts were made by Rev. Durbin, William M. Orr, Dr. W.
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) spoke before a “large assemblage at Barber Hall” in Homer on Saturday, 2 December. Clemens spent Sunday, 3 December, in Homer and then took the train to Geneva, New York, the following day. According to the Reverend James P. Foster, who attended the lecture, it was “unexceptionably delightful; the stories were told in a masterly manner, and were chaste and delightful; the envelope of pure humor often covering a touching moral”. Barber Hall, was built by Jedidiah Barber, the first permanent merchant to locate in the village of Homer.
W. C. Barrett built a three-story brick block at the North-East corner of Main and Hickory Streets. It was given the address of One Main Street. The opera house was on the third floor of the building.
The building was sold to Henry Swannell, proprietor of the drug store on the ground floor, and C.S. Morehouse in March, 1873. They made some renovations to the opera house space.
Barrett's Hall was remodeled in August, 1882. It was renamed the Champaign Opera House.
"It is commonly recognized that Scott Chapel was first established in 1887, at Brittingham Hall, in the 400 block of Broadway, Hannibal."
Source: William Payne, Cleveland Illustrated (Cleveland: Fairbanks and Benedict, 1876) https://clevelandhistorical.org/index.php/files/show/6899
CASE HALL - The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
There is no documentation I know of linking Mark Twain to his lecture in Lansing Michigan, December 23, 1868, but this site seems a good fit.
Located on a lot of donated land from Amherst College, it was built between the years of 1828 and 1829, to serve as the third meeting house of the First Congregational Church of Amherst. When a new congregational church was built on Main Street in 1868, Amherst College purchased the former church building and its lands. In 1905 the building was rededicated as College Hall, as well as expanded and remodeled, with the addition of new columns to the front.
Performance hall built in 1865
138 East main Street, 2nd flooor
Day’s Hall, located on the second floor of the building, was used as a lecture hall between 1846 and 1872. It is not the same facility as the Odd Fellows Hall, located on the third floor of the same building.
I have no documentation that Mark Twain spoke here, but ...
Diefendorf Hall stands among a row of buildings along Main Street in the Village of Fort Plain. The building is historically significant for hosting Women’s Rights Movement leaders Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1867. Stanton addressed the assembled audience on “Universal Suffrage.”
Erie beat a path to the shops and stores in West Park Place to buy clothes, groceries, hardware, imported foodstuffs, silverware, paintings, books, real estate, insurance; and to seek the services of lawyers (the 1879 City Directory listed 15 attorneys on North Park Row), doctors, engineers, and dentists. People went there to bank, to buy tickets on the Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad, and possibly to school at Erie Commercial College; but above all, they went to be entertained.
At the height of the Corona Virus lockdowns...
Hi Scott,
Fry's Hall was located in the Fry block at the corner of what is now Stephenson Street and Chicago Avenue in downtown Freeport. I have attached a photo of it taken around 1892. The building was torn down at some point.
Hamilton's hall erected on the site of the Rurode Dry Goods Company building on Calhoun street .
The lecture was held in the new Hardin’s Hall, located on the north side of the 100 block of East First Avenue. Built in 1865 by hardware merchant Chancy Hardin, it was at the time the only public auditorium in Monmouth.
The Harmonie Club is a private social club in New York City. Founded in 1852, the club is the second oldest social club in New York.[1] It is located at 4 East 60th Street, in a building designed by Stanford White.
Huntington Hall/Merrimack Street Depot
By 1904, the building that housed both Huntington Hall and the Merrimack Street Depot had served as the city’s main public gathering place for generations. The City of Lowell and the Boston & Lowell Railroad entered into a joint agreement to build the hall in 1853, providing the railroad with the Merrimack Street Depot and the city with a public hall. Named for the early longtime Lowell mayor, Elisha Huntington, the building housed the hall in its upper stories, and the train depot on its bottom story.
Demolished in September of 1969
I am unable to find a location for this site although I have found references such as "Library Hall and Reading Room in Joy's marble-building on Lake Street". There was on Lake Street:
Lincoln Hall was located on the northeast corner of 9th and D Streets NW from 1867 to 1886, when it burned down in a spectacular fire. Many people thought it was hideous!
In March 1855 a fire took out several buildings on the north side of Seneca Street, starting at the corner of Maiden Lane. John S. King proceeded to erect a block of buildings with a public hall on the second floor. Such halls were recognizable by the taller windows and can still be found in towns in this area. The village took advantage of the fire and new construction to widen Maiden Lane by fifteen feet to its current width. In honor of Jenny Lind, the street and new hall were both named Linden.
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The local newspaper of record in the 1880s was the Jerseyman. I searched the Friday after Thanksgiving in 1884 but failed to find an article about Twain and Cable speaking here or staying with Thomas Nast. However, I found the following brief article on the previous Friday, the 21st an page 2 at the bottom of the 4th column:
Scott, a citation in the Saint Paul History and Area Business Index describes Market Hall as being on 7th Street West, at the northeast corner of Saint Peter Street. The index also shows several articles about the Market Hall, at least one of which containing an illustration. However, the articles themselves are on microfilm, so any further investigation would require a $15 service fee as explained in the attached document regarding the library's policy on service and delivery fees.
The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is a private art and design college in Baltimore, Maryland.