Tacony Music Hall


Tacony Music Hall
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

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Location	4815–4819 Longshore Ave. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°1′28″N 75°2′33″W / 40.02444°N 75.04250°W / 40.02444; -75.04250Coordinates: 40°1′28″N 75°2′33″W / 40.02444°N 75.04250°W / 40.02444; -75.04250
Area	0.1 acres (0.040 ha)
Built	1885
Architect	Unknown
Architectural style	Romanesque
NRHP Reference #	90000413^[1]
Added to NRHP	March 9, 1990

The Tacony Music Hall is a historic building in the Tacony neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The three-story brick building was erected in 1885 by Frank W. Jordan, a local druggist and entrepreneur, as a multi-use facility, with retail shop space on the first floor, an auditorium on the second, and space for the Keystone Scientific and Literary Association (founded 1876, later called the Disston Library and Free Reading Room) on the third.^[2]

P. T. Barnum and Susan B. Anthony lectured here.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

Today, the beautifully restored building is occupied by the local civic association, historical society, and several businesses including a pre-school on the first floor and recording, production and music instruction studios on the third.

A movement is underway to return the historic music hall to its original purpose as the cultural and artistic center for a resurgent Tacony. Current plans include a Performing Arts Center, music therapy and music instruction studios, and recording and post-production facilities in an artistically underserved area of Philadelphia.

References

↑ National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Iatarola, Louis M. "Tacony Music Hall". Historical Society of Tacony. Retrieved January 1, 2014.

External links

Media related to Tacony Music Hall at Wikimedia Commons

Listing and photographs at the Historic American Buildings Survey
Listing and photograph at Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
Woodcut (1893) at Bryn Mawr College

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