Madison Square Garden Theatre
Madison Avenue and E. 27th Street,
New York,
NY
10010
Madison Avenue and E. 27th Street,
New York,
NY
10010
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Interesting article on the original Madison Square Garden and MSGII
http://www.flatirondistrict.nyc/discover-flatiron/flatiron-history/madison-square-garden
Check out this Wikipedia page about this theater. The Garden Theatre has been erroneously referred to as the Madison Square Garden Theatre. It was not related to a theatre on New York’s Madison Ave. and 24th St. that was called the Madison Square Theatre from 1879 to 1891 and later called Hoyt’s Theatre. The Garden Theatre was architecturally and structurally part of, but managed separately from, the Madison Square Garden (1890) complex designed by Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White, that replaced the original Madison Square Garden (1879) at the same site. Unlike most theatres of the day, patrons entered from street level and it was described as “fireproof”,[2] in an era when theatre fires were not uncommon. The auditorium had eight boxes, a gallery and a balcony, with 1,200 seats plus room for 400 standees. The building was 117 feet long and 70 feet wide, and the stage was 39 feet deep and 70 feet wide.[3]
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