Exeter Street Theatre

[3] The Working Union of Progressive Spiritualists continued to meet in the building's lower auditorium until 1974, when the congregation relocated to neighboring Brookline (and subsequently to Harwich, on Cape Cod), and they and/or Hattie Ayer sold the theater operation and building.

[7][8] After the theatre closed in 1984 amidst popular cultural anguish and bottom-line real-estate concerns, the building has been deployed for a variety of mostly commercial purposes.

[10] By 1988 "the Exeter Street Theatre building [housed TGI] Friday's Restaurant and an office complex.

[15][16] John Cheever's short story "The President of the Argentine" mentions the Exeter Street Theatre.

[17] Gregory Mcdonald's second book in the Fletch series Confess, Fletch (1976) mentions an Alec Guinness Saturday matinee double feature of The Lavender Hill Mob and The Man in the White Suit at the Exeter Street Theatre.