[10] Emerson College now uses the Paramount Theater as a "mixed-use residential, academic, and performance venue.

"[11] The Washington Street Theatre District, consisting of seven buildings on the west side of Washington Street (numbers 511-559), was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

[1] Buildings in the district include the Boston Opera House, built on the site of the city's second theater.

Its entrance hall is the city's only surviving work of noted theater designer Thomas W. Lamb.

These theaters and their predecessors have displayed the gamut of theatrical entertainment across more than two centuries, including vaudeville, comedy, and film.