The Globe Theatre (est.1871) was a
playhouse in
Boston,
Massachusetts, in the 19th century. It was located at 598
Washington Street,[1] near the corner of Essex Street.[2] Arthur Cheney oversaw the Globe until 1876.[3][4] From 1871 to 1873 it occupied the former theatre of
John H. Selwyn.[4] After a fire in May 1873, the Globe re-opened on the same site in December 1874.[5] Architect
Benjamin F. Dwight designed the new building.[6] From 1877 to 1893 John Stetson served as proprietor;[7][8] some regarded him as "a theatrical producer with a reputation for illiteracy in his day such as
Samuel Goldwyn has achieved" in the 1960s.[9] The theatre burned down in January 1894.[10]
^The Globe occupied the site on Washington Street opposite the
Park Theatre, on the block between Essex Street and Hayward Place: no.364 Washington Street, 1871-ca.1876 (Boston Almanac. 1871, 1875) later re-numbered as no.598 Washington Street, ca.1877-ca.1894 (Boston Almanac. 1877, 1881, 1887, 1891, 1894)
^Boston Daily Globe, July 17, 1872; Boston Evening Transcript, Sept. 9, 1876
^
abRichard Herndon and Edwin Bacon, ed. (1892), Boston of to-day: a glance at its history and characteristics. With biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men, Boston: Post Pub. Co.,
OCLC4430662,
OL7162628M