Tarrytown Music Hall

The Music Hall, in Tarrytown, New York, United States, is located on West Main Street downtown.

Its south (front) facade and the first three bays on the east and west have a rough-cut granite foundation and brick facing.

Atop the building is a hipped roof shingled in slate with a cast iron parapet railing around its flat central section.

[2] Two terra cotta belt courses with paneling between set off the second story, with large corbels on the corner towers.

The upper one forms the sill of the one-over-one double-hung sash windows with painted wood surrounds and glass transoms topped by terra cotta lintels.

Above it is an arched brick, stone and terra cotta panel with "Music Hall" spelled out in the semicircle below large keystone-shaped arrangements.

The gable field has an eight-pane double casement window, with the brick and terra cotta giving way to fish-scale wood shingles midway up.

Silhouettes of figures in early 20th-century dress decorate wall niches in the panels as well as stair landings and hallways.

[2] Higher up, the plaster panels on the arched ceiling spandrels and frieze have been painted gold, as have the classical elements on the stage wall.

[2] The more flexible interior space allowed the theater to host all sorts of events, including several roller skating contests in 1886.

John D. Rockefeller often loaned palm trees grown in the greenhouses at Kykuit, his nearby estate, for use in sets.

Other political events the Music Hall hosted during the Progressive Era included speeches by Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt.

[3] A further remodeling in 1922 changed the interior to its present configuration, sloping the floor, adding permanent seats and covering the wall spandrels with plaster.

That year the theater spent $100,000 to re-roof one side of the building, replace the stage curtain, spotlights and sandbags.

The year afterwards, a local Junior League chapter raised most of the money to replace the original air conditioning after it failed.

[9] More recently, exterior and interior scenes from the 2011 film, Henry's Crime, starring Keanu Reeves, were shot at the Tarrytown Music Hall in January 2010.

[10] Random Farms Kids Theater (a Westchester-based non-profit children's theater and founded by Anya Wallach in 1996), Ars Viva Chamber Orchestra (a premiere chamber orchestra), and Westchester Symphonic Winds (an adult community-based 60-piece wind and percussion ensemble) are all currently recognized as resident companies of the Tarrytown Music Hall.

In 2018, The Music Hall introduced a resident theater arts program for young people called The Tarrytown Music Hall Academy, offering a variety of workshops to kids in the Hudson Valley and beyond with a focus on the process of creating theater arts, including lighting, costume, and set design, play writing, stage combat choreography, as well as performance.