Steinert Hall

[2][3][nb 1] Architects Winslow and Wetherell designed the "six-story limestone and brick Beaux Arts-style facade with terra-cotta ornament and a copper cornice.

"[4] Inside the building and four stories below ground is a concert auditorium, now closed, designed in the "Adam-style ... with fluted Corinthian pilasters separating round arches.

"[4] Around 1911 some considered Steinert Hall the "headquarters for the musical and artistic world of cultured Boston.

Lhévinne, Josef Hofmann, Harold Bauer, Anna Diller Starbuck, Fritz Kreisler and many others have made their bows from its platform.

"[5] The concert auditorium, now in ill-repair, has not been used since it was closed in 1942 due to new fire code restrictions imposed after the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire and the prohibitive cost to upgrade the hall.