Grand Opera House opens.

[7/2] Architect: Snell & Gregerson. It is located on the former site of the Columbia Skating Rink at 1176 Washington Street. The theater seats 1,979 (2,600-Barnet) and initially presents traditional melodramas. By the turn of the century, it hosts boxing matches and Yiddish theater. The theater is frequented by Harvard students Conrad Aiken and T.S. Eliot. David Barber of the Boston Globe later speculates that it may have been where Eliot took “boxing lessons under the tutelage of a beefy pugilist who may well have been the prototype for the brutish ‘Apeneck Sweeney’ in the poems ‘Sweeney Erect’ and ‘Sweeney Among the Nightingales.’” The building is demolished in the late 1930s.