Bijou Theatre
43 Center Street,
North Adams,
MA
01247
43 Center Street,
North Adams,
MA
01247
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Previous Names: Columbia Opera House, Columbia Theatre
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Built by a temperance organization called the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Society, this theatre opened in 1895 as the Columbia Opera House. By 1913 it had been renamed the Bijou Theatre, and was showing silent movies. When two larger and newer North Adams houses, the Richmond Theatre and Empire Theatre, were converted to movie houses, the upstairs Bijou Theatre lost popularity and was closed. In 1920 it was converted into the Hebrew Community Center of the United House of Israel, which it remained until the building was demolished as part of a city redevelopment scheme in 1955.
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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.