Modern Theatre (Boston)
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The Modern Theatre[note 1] is located on Washington Street in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. It opened as a movie theater in 1914 in a former commercial building that had been repurposed by noted theater architect Clarence H. Blackall. In 2009 Suffolk University demolished the long-vacant building after removing and storing the facade, and constructed a new building on the site. Suffolk's new Modern Theatre opened on November 4, 2010.
Address | 525 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111 |
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Coordinates | 42°21′15″N 71°03′44″W |
Owner | Suffolk University |
Type | Theatre |
Capacity | 185 |
Construction | |
Opened | 1876 |
Renovated | 1914, 2010 |
Architect | Levi Newcomb (original) Clarence H. Blackall (conversion) Childs Bertman Tseckares (renovation) |
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The theater is part of the Washington Street Theatre District, which was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1] The theater was also designated as a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission in 2002.[2]