On Sunday, January 16, 1916, the Pawtucket Train Station opened in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. It was built by the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad as a replacement for two separate stations in Pawtucket and nearby Central Falls for $350,000, or $8,881,298 million when adjusted for inflation. After over 40 years of use, the […]
Dr. Joseph Goodale planted the first trees for what would become the Russell Orchards in 1920. Located on Argilla Road in Ipswich, Massachusetts, the Goodale Orchards, as it was initially named, primarily sold their Apples at markets in Boston. Kenneth Macleod, the farm manager, began working on the property in 1932. He operated a cider […]
Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament was originally founded as Our Lady of the Rosary Roman Catholic Church, an outgrowth of the neighboring Our Mother of Sorrows. The cornerstone was laid in October of 1888 with great fanfare: over 1,000 people attended the ceremony, with multiple church bands and temperance societies among their numbers. Inside […]
Keeping the spirit of James Brown alive in downtown Augusta.
The Apollo Theatre opened on December 15, 1913, as Hurtig & Seamon’s New Burlesque Theater. The 1,853 seat theater is located in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan. It was designed by architect George Keister, also known for the American Airlines Theatre in Times Square. It showed burlesque in its early years, but with the decline […]
The Logan Theatre in Philadelphia, PA, opened on January 24, 1924. It was built by the Stanley Company of America (now known as Time Warner) for $1.1 million, or $14 million when adjusted for inflation. The 1894-seat theater was designed by Hoffman and Henon, the architectural firm who also designed the now mostly demolished Boyd […]
Philadelphia’s Metropolitan Opera House opened on November 17, 1908, as the Philadelphia Opera House. The 3,482 seat theater was built by architect William H. McElfatrick for Oscar Hammerstein, the grandfather of Oscar Hammerstein II, the famous musical theater lyricist. However, after only two years, Hammerstein fell into debt and was forced to sell the opera […]
Moss and Brill’s Hamilton Theatre opened on January 23, 1913, in Manhattan’s Hamilton Heights neighborhood. Famed theater architect Thomas W. Lamb was commissioned to design the building by vaudeville operator Benjamin S. Moss and theater developer Solomon Bril. Lamb designed the Hamilton in the Renaissance Revival style, incorporating a terracotta façade. On November 26, 1913, […]
The Ritz Theatre in Carteret, New Jersey, originally opened on September 1, 1927. According to an article in “The Carteret Press,” “it was the first modern theater to be erected in the borough and is up-to-date in every respect.” The 1,000 to 1,200 seat Ritz (accounts on the number of seats differ) was designed by […]
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