Gordon's Olympia Theatre
- Architect
- Clarence Blackall
- Year
- 1910
- City
- Boston, MA
Gordon's Olympia Theatre opened in the 1910s at 658 Washington Street in Boston's theatre district, built for Nathan H. Gordon's Olympia Theatres chain and designed by Clarence Blackall, one of the city's leading theater architects. The building later operated as the Pilgrim Theater before it was demolished in 1996.
the building
A scandal's stage. In late 1974 the theater, then known as the Pilgrim, was the site of a drunken rant and press conference by U.S. Representative Wilbur Mills at the height of his public scandal with Fanne Foxe, an episode that led to his resignation from the House Ways and Means Committee.
the architect
Clarence Blackall was a prominent Boston theater architect responsible for numerous playhouses in the city; Gordon's Olympia Theatre, built in 1910, was one of his theatre-district commissions.
significance
The building was demolished in 1996; nothing of Blackall's 1910 theater survives at the site today.
nearby
- Boylston Building
- Hayden Building
- Boston Young Men's Christian Union Building
- Charles Playhouse
- Wilbur Theatre
- Wang Theatre