Beacon Hill Theatre (first) opens.

(Feb.) Architect: Clarence Blackall. Operated by Jacob Lourie, it is located at today’s 1 Beacon Street (then 47 – 53 Tremont Street). The theater seats 775 and, like its sister theatre, the Modern, is built exclusively for motion pictures. It is renamed the Beacon Hill Theatre on November 10, 1948. Ben Sack allegedly wins this theatre in a poker game, and it serves as the beginning of what eventually becomes the Sack Theatres chain. From at least World War II through the 1960s, the Beacon Hill was one of Boston’s premiere art houses. The building is torn down to make way for construction of a new building with a theater (second) in its basement in 1971.*