Bijou Theatre

There is a Columbia Theatre listed under North Adams in the 1897-98 edition of the Julius Cahn Official Theatrical Guide. W.P. Meade was Mgr. 814 seats. Tickets, 35 cents to $1. The theater was upstairs and had both gas and electric illumination. The proscenium was 30 feet wide X 15 feet high, and the stage was 25 feet deep. There were 6 players in the house orchestra. The 1897 population was 22,000.