That space, apart from the 25-foot lobby leading to the theater, was originally leased to William Gibson and Gustave Beiswenger as a restaurant, café and banquet hall on the first and second floor named the Bronx Opera House Restaurant, the third floor being used as lodge rooms.Įmphasis was put on fire safety. A three-story commercial building was on 149th Street. The building, its façade still standing today, has a 97-foot-wide (30 m) fronting on 149th Street, between Bergen and Brook Avenue, and it runs back 205 feet to 148th Street. The backstage area featured 12 dressing rooms. The stage had a proscenium opening of 34x28 ft. It had a capacity of 1,892 seats divided as follows: 799 orchestra (floor) seats, 537 balcony seats, 478 gallery seats and 78 box seats. 6.1 Was opened as Keith's Bronx Theatre.2 Development and construction (1911–1913).Keith’s Bronx Theatre, which was a different venue featuring vaudeville shows. Williams’ New Bronx Opera House built in 1909 and located at 567 Melrose Avenue (corner of 150th Street), later renamed the B.F. The Bronx Opera House is often confused with the Percy G. Post-Broadway shows were often performed and the theater hosted the Aborn Opera Company. Cohan, Eddie Cantor, John Bunny, Harry Houdini, Peggy Wood and Fats Waller.
Other performers at the theatre included George M. Performers included the Marx Brothers, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Julia Marlowe, Ethel Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore, David Warfield. It was formally dedicated on opening night Saturday, August 30, 1913. It was one of several theaters to come into the area that became known as the Hub. Keister and built in 1913 at 436 East 149th Street on the site of Frederick Schnaufer's stable. The Bronx Opera House is a former theater, part of the Subway Circuit, now converted into a boutique hotel in the Bronx, New York It was designed by George M.
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