The Academy of Music in Northampton, Massachusetts, was built in 1890, by Edward H.R. Lyman at a cost of over $100,000, plus another $25,000 for the interior. Tickets were $1.00, or $1.50 for big name acts such as Sarah Bernhardt, Ethel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Mae West, Harry Houdini, Boris Karloff, William Powell, Basil Rathbone, John Philip Sousa, Jeanette MacDonald, and Ruth Gordon. In 1898, the Academy began to show moving pictures.
Academy of Music. Photograph. ca. 1910. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/1997-08-01-0053/. Accessed on October 16, 2024.
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