The Melodeon (1839 - ca.1870) was a concert hall and performance space in 19th-century
Boston,
Massachusetts, located on
Washington Street, near West Street. Musical concerts, lectures, sermons, conferences, visual displays, and popular entertainments occurred there.
History
The Melodeon occupied the building of the former Lion Theatre (1836–1839) and Mechanics Institute (1839).[2]
Proprietors of the Melodeon included the
Handel and Haydn Society (1839); Leander Rodney (1844); Boston Theatre Company (1852); E. Warden (1857; temporarily renamed The Melodeon Varieties);
Charles Francis Adams (1859).[2][3]
Performances & events
1830s-1840s
1839
Handel and Haydn Society.
1840
"Soiree musicale. The celebrated Rainer Family, or Tyrolese minstrels."[4]
1842
Amateur concert for the benefit of the Warren Street Chapel.[4]