Architect Isaiah Rogers designed the original Theatre structure in 1827 in the Greek Revival style.
[1] In the early part of the 19th Century, Boston was still a small town, not yet the bustling metropolis it is today.
These included Junius Brutus Booth, Charlotte Cushman, George Washington Dixon, Fanny Elssler, Edwin Forrest, John Gilbert, Charles and Fanny Kemble, and Thomas D. Rice.
[3] In 1841 leading British actors John and Charlotte Vandenhoff were in America.
[5] On 28 December 1843, the Free Church Baptists bought the theatre and renamed it the Tremont Temple.