Austin and Stone's Dime Museum (ca.1880s-1900s) of Boston, Massachusetts, was an entertainment emporium in Scollay Square (no.4 Tremont Row), established...
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Dime museums were institutions that were popular at the end of the 19th century in the United States. Designed as centers for entertainment and moral...
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Benjamin Franklin Keith (section Gaiety Museum)
Forepaugh Circus. In 1883, Keith and William Austin (later of the Austin and Stone's Dime Museum) opened a curiosity museum in a vacant storefront on Washington...
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Scollay Square (category Former buildings and structures in Boston)
fire mysteriously in 1961. The square was also the home of Austin and Stone's Dime Museum. John Winthrop Statue To mark the 250th anniversary of the Commonwealth...
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also the home of Austin and Stone's Dime Museum. As early as the 1950s, city officials had been mulling plans to completely tear down and redevelop the Scollay...
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William S. Hutchings (category Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus)
President Ulysses S. Grant. In 1883, he began performing at Austin and Stone's Dime Museum. He continued to perform there until the time of his death....
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Tremont Row (category Former buildings and structures in Boston)
of Boston." Anthony Feola Photographer Thomas Gold Appleton Austin and Stone's Dime Museum Thomas Ball, sculptor Hammatt Billings, architect Boston Artists'...
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concert halls, lecture halls, meeting spaces, etc. Some operated as dime museums, and some as motion picture houses. Some of the buildings that formerly...
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Witch Island (section Transition to dime museums)
clients), Austin and Stone's Dime Museum, Pittsburgh's Harris' Fifth Avenue Museum, Kohl & Middleton's Dime Museum in Chicago, Gregory's Dime Museum in St...
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the Texas Ranger Museum at the Buckhorn Saloon & Museum Texas Museum of Science and Technology, closed in 2020 Palm House Museum, Austin, closed 2021 Texas...
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