Ziegfeld Hall, Ziegfeld Picture Palace, V.L.S.E. Theatre, Columbia College
Life Span: 1909-Present
Location: 624 S Michigan
Architect:
- Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1911
Ziegfeld Carl v pres Chicago musical college 624 S Michigan av h 3529 W Monroe
Inter Ocean, May 28, 1909
News of the Schools and Colleges.
Ziegfeld hall, the new concert chamber in the Chicago Musical College building, will be open to the public within the month and the event will be one of great interest to musicians and music lovers. A medium sized concert auditorium of the best class has long been one of the greatest needs of the city and Ziegfeld hall will more than answer the requirements.
The stage is as large and perfectly equipped as that of any Chicago theater, and the seating capacity is 730. Two more inches than the law allows have been left for each seat space, and nothing has been left undone to make this an auditorium specially fitted for the programs of concert artists, music schools, conventions and gatherings of kindred nature.
Manager William K. Zeigfeld has already booked a number of the most desirable engagements for the coming season, and several societies have signified their intention of holding conventions there in the near future.
Inter Ocean, May 30, 1909
A New Concert Hall.
Musicians of Chicago have long clamored for a medium sized concert auditorium of the best class which might be rented at a reasonable price. There has been a dearth of auditoriums the size of which met the demands of most concert artiets and mustelans having in charge the presentation of music students’ programs. Chicago theaters are seldom available for such purposes: Orchestra hall is far too large for the ordinary gathering and the numerous other halls open. to rental are either inaccessible or nearly so, or they are too diminutive for a crowd of any proportion. Within the month there will be opened a new concert auditorium of perfect appointment and dimensions, with just the seating capacity to bid for entertainments Intended for audienees of good proportion. This is Ziegfeld hall, the new concert chamber located in the Chicago Musical College building on Michigan avenue.
Ziegfeld hall has a seating capacity of 750, the stage is as large as that of any Chicago theater, every detail has been worked out by expert hall builders, electrical stage appliances are installed, and when the first public performance is given there this month Chicago will have one of the most elegant and satisfactory halls of the sort to be found anywhere in the world. Two more inches than the city law requires have been left for every seat space, the latest designed seats were secured, the balcony was built straight across from wall to wall, providing the most perfect seats in that section of the hall—nothing has been left undone to make this an auditorium peculiarly fitted for the programs of concert artists, music schools, conventions and gatherings of kindred nature.
That such a hall has been needed in Chicago is conclusively proven by the fact that already Manager William K. Ziegfeld has booked a large number of the most desirable engagements of the coming season. The Kneisels will play in Zlegfeld hall, many other artists to be regularly announced later. F. Wight Neumann will use it for many of his artists besides the Kneisel quartet, the physicians’ congress lecturec course will occupy it a half week and numerous other conventions will meet there.
- Ziegfeld Hall
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