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Museum of Fine Arts – Boston, Massachusetts

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:09:07 +0000

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Loge Seats – Cutler Majestic Theatre, Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 02:46:55 +0000

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Seeing Red – Stuart and Washington Streets, Boston, Massachusetts

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 12:31:33 +0000

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In 18th and early 19th century America, traditional burlesque productions were travesties or satires. The modern burlesque, a broadly humorous theatrical entertainment of a more earthy character, began to develop in the late 19th century. The tried-and-true formula combined ethnic comics, variety acts and sketches with a chorus line of girls in tights, led by female stars known as soubrettes. Later more risqué belly dancers, known as "cooch" or "hootchy-kootchy" dancers, were added. While some variety acts played at both vaudeville and burlesque houses, the difference in underlying principles has been described as "one of night and day," with burlesque being "all the things vaudeville wanted no part of."

One of only two remaining Boston theater associated with burlesque is the Globe, which still stands at 690 Washington Street. The Globe was built by Weber and Fields, who at the turn of the century were the most successful producers of "clean" burlesque. They were the most famous comedy team of their day and toured the country with their own stock productions, which were able to attract first-class talent. Their productions harked back to the travesties of previous generations. The Globe was designed by noted Boston architect Arthur Vinal and opened on Sept 14, 1903. The Weber and Fields partnership dissolved in 1904 but the theater continued to attract quality productions. In the early 1910s, the Globe was producing all-star vaudeville. Over the years, it was used for drama, musical comedy, vaudeville, burlesque, and films. Major stars who appeared there included James K. Hackett, Weber and Fields, Lillian Russell, Al Jolson, W.C. Fields, Abbott and Costello, and Gypsy Rose Lee.

In 1947 the old Globe burlesque house was renamed Center Theatre and devoted itself to the screening of B movies. The auditorium of the Globe now houses a Chinese restaurant and a Chinese grocery store. Although the grocery store has totally altered the ground floor, most of the decor survives in the former balcony area upstairs, which houses the restaurant. The newly constructed second floor extends through the proscenium arch, which provides a rather more lavish decor than is typical in most diners!

Jacob Wirth Restaurant – Stuart Street, Boston, Massachusetts

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:26:56 +0000

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German immigrant Jacob Wirth began serving hearty food to Bostonians in 1868, and moved his restaurant to this location several years later. His family maintained the tradition, and the cuisine and atmosphere have changed. little over the years. The nineteenth century interior remains virtually intact.

Built in 1845, the buildings are the only survivors of the bow-front Greek Revival rowhouses that once dominated the area. In 1889 Wirth expanded next door, adding the storefront that unites the properties today.

Tufts Medical Center – Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:44:42 +0000

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Peter B. Remembers – Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:09:28 +0000

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The Little Building – Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:12:38 +0000

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A 12-story residence hall that houses 748 students of Emerson College, the Little Building at 80 Boylston Street is located in the heart of Boston’s Theatre District at the corner of Boylston and Tremont Streets. The building also contains the college’s only cafeteria, a 10,000 sq ft (930 m2) fitness center in its basement and The Cabaret, a space in the basement used for performances with a maximum capacity of 150 people.

The Little Building was originally built to hold 600 offices, 15 stores, 22 shops, and a Post Office. Built in 1917, it was named after its financier, John Mason Little and was designed by famed architect Clarence Blackall. The building’s name is often mistaken to be an adjective, which leads to a surprise upon discovery that it is one of the larger buildings on the Emerson campus.

A Most A-musing Mews – Boylston Place, Boston, Massachusetts

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:02:49 +0000

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... with apologies to Flanders and Swann

Union Savings Bank Building – Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 02:59:08 +0000

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The former Union Bank building at 216 Tremont Street houses Emerson College's Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and its clinic for hearing-impaired children. Also located here are the offices of the Registrar, Student Financial Services, Health Services, Career Services, the Counseling Center and the International Student Center. The Bill Bordy Theater and Auditorium on the ground floor is used for lectures, performances, performance classes and special events.

Over the Top – Lobby, Cutler Majestic Theatre, Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 03:11:00 +0000

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The Majestic Theatre opened on February 16, 1903 with a performance of the jolly musical comedy, The Storks. Eben Dyer Jordan commissioned architect John Galen Howard to design The Majestic, who was one of only 400 American architects trained at the École des Beaux-Arts (School of Fine Arts) in Paris in the late 1800s. Howard attended MIT before moving to Paris so his design of the Majestic combines plain old Yankee ingenuity with the classical perfection, Rococo decoration, functional quality, and pure visual fun taught at the Beaux Arts School. He used the newly invented electric light bulb to proclaim the theater’s grandeur by accenting the tall columns, soaring arches, and stained glass of the facade. The pattern was repeated in the lobby and auditorium – 4,500 light bulbs in all.

The École des Beaux-Arts lead a resurgence of the highly decorative forms such as Rococo, blending them with Classical forms and accents referring to current popular styles. The Majestic therefore has a unique fusion of Classical form and art nouveau, with a touch of the Rococo influence. Since every piece of decorative plaster is gilded and the scheme has more decorative plaster than other forms (and hence an almost overwhelming amount of bright gold leaf ) the Majestic was called "The House of Gold."

Cutler Majestic Theatre – Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:53:15 +0000

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The Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson College, in Boston, Massachusetts, is a 1903 "Beaux Arts" style theater, designed by the architect John Galen Howard. The Majestic was converted to accommodate vaudeville shows in the 1920’s and eventually into a movie house in the 1950’s. The change to film came with renovations that transformed the lobby and covered up much of John Galen Howard’s original Beaux-Arts architecture.

The theater continued to show movies until 1983 as the Saxon Theatre. By then, the theater began to deteriorate both in appearance and in programming. In the mid-1980’s Emerson College purchased the theater and restored it to its original Beaux-Arts appearance. The theater today is a performing arts center for both Emerson College and the community at large. It is the home base of Opera Boston as well as frequently staging shows by New England Conservatory, Teatro Lirico D’Europa, Celebrity Series of Boston, Emerson College’s Emerson Stage company and the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus. The theater has again been renamed, the Cutler Majestic Theatre, after donors Ted and Joan Benard-Cutler.

It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Massachusetts Register of Historic Places, and is a "Boston Historic Landmark". The theatre is located at 219 Tremont Street in Boston’s theater district. It seats just under 1,200 people.

Former Hotel Bellevue #1 – 21 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:17:27 +0000

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Built in 1899 as the Hotel Bellevue and is now an elegant residential condo building.

The Bellevue Hotel and the adjacent apartment building at 122 Bowdoin Street served as John Kennedy’s residences when he moved to Boston to run for the U.S. Congress in 1946 under the slogan of "The New Generation Offers a Leader." The future president initially lived at the Bellevue, where his grandfather John F. Fitzgerald, former Boston Mayor and U.S. Congressman, was spending his retirement years.

300th Anniversary Monument – Boston Common, Boston, Massachusetts

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:23:42 +0000

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In Boston, on the edge of Boston Common and along Beacon Street, is a large stone monument at an entrance to the Common. This monument celebrates the 300th Anniversary of the founding of the City of Boston.

Inscribed on the Beacon Street side of the monument are three texts, one of which is the famous declaration of John Winthrop, the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, spoken on board the Arbella just before the city was founded:

"For wee must consider that wee shall be as a citty on a hill the lies of all people are uppon us so that if wee shall deale falsely with our God in this worke we have undertaken … wee shall be made a story and a by-word through the world."

On the Common side, there is one phrase, "Boston Founded AD 1630" as well as a basin in the stone that indicate that it probably was a fountain at one time. Immediately above the basin is a bronze relief sculpture done by John Francis Palermino. It depicts two men about to shake hands, with other settlers nearby. The man on the left represents William Blackstone and behind him are Native Americans. These represent those who had lived on the Shawmut Peninsula – the core piece of land that would become the city of Boston – before the newcomers arrived, represented by the man and the line of people to the right. Boston Harbour and the buildings of Charlestown (founded two years earlier) are in the background, along with a ship floating in the harbour. There are hills in the far background.