[1][2] Architect George Wetherell designed the space, described by a contemporary reviewer as "dainty.

[5][6] Around the 1900s, it featured a "staircase of heavy glass under which flowed an illuminated waterfall.

The Bijou was the first theatre in the United States to be elementarily lighted by electricity, which Thomas Edison personally installed and supervised.

Since it was on the second floor, the exits led to the lobbies of the two surrounding theatres, the B.F. Keith Theatre (later the Normandie and Laffmovie) and the newer Keith Memorial (later known as the Savoy and is now the Boston Opera House).

[12] The Bijou was razed to the orchestra and stage floors, which became the roof of the stores below.

Most of what remained of the Bijou building was demolished in 2008, but Emerson College bought the property and plans to make the Bijou and Paramount Theatre into theatres and dormitories.