Symphony Hall, Boston

Symphony Hall
	Front view of Symphony Hall in 2023
Address	301 Massachusetts Avenue
Location	Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Coordinates	42°20′34.2″N 71°5′8.5″W / 42.342833°N 71.085694°W
Public transit	Symphony
Owner	Boston Symphony Orchestra
Type	concert hall
Capacity	2,625
Construction
Broke ground	June 12, 1899
Built	1900
Opened	October 15, 1900
Architect	McKim, Mead and White
Website
	www.bso.org/symphony-hall

Symphony Hall is a concert hall that is home to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, located at 301 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts. BSO founder Henry Lee Higginson commissioned architectural firm McKim, Mead and White to create a new, permanent home for the orchestra. Symphony Hall can accommodate an audience of 2,625. The hall was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1999 and is a pending Boston Landmark. It was then noted that "Symphony Hall remains, acoustically, among the top three concert halls in the world (sharing this distinction with the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Vienna's Musikvereinsaal), and is considered the finest in the United States."^[1]^[2] Symphony Hall, located one block from Berklee College of Music to the north and one block from the New England Conservatory to the south, also serves as home to the Boston Pops as well as the site of many concerts of the Handel and Haydn Society.

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^ Gerrit Petersen; Steven Ledbetter & Kimberly Alexander Shilland (June 26, 1998). National Historic Landmark Nomination: Symphony Hall (PDF) (Report). National Park Service. Retrieved 2009-06-26. and Accompanying 18 photos and other illustrations, exterior and interior, historic and modern (5.38 MB)