Cutler Majestic Theatre (Boston, Massachusetts)

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The Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson College, in Boston, Massachusetts, is a 1903 "Beaux Arts" style theater, designed by the architect John Galen Howard. Originally built for theatre, one of three theaters commissioned in Boston by Eben Dyer Jordan, son of the founder of Jordan Marsh, a Boston-based chain of department stores. The Majestic was converted to accommodate vaudeville shows in the 1920s and eventually into a movie house in the 1950s. The change to film came with renovations that transformed the lobby and covered up much of John Galen Howard's original Beaux-Arts architecture. In 2003, the College completed an extensive restoration of the 1,200-seat Majestic that has won awards from several major organizations, including the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the League of Historic American Theatres. www.maj.org/