The Melodeon (1839 - ca.1870) was a concert hall and performance space in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts, located on Washington Street, near West Street. Musical concerts, lectures, sermons, conferences, visual displays, and popular entertainments occurred there.
The Melodeon occupied the building of the former Lion Theatre (1836–1839) and Mechanics Institute (1839).
Proprietors of the Melodeon included the Handel and Haydn Society (1839); Leander Rodney (1844); Boston Theatre Company (1852); E. Warden (1857; temporarily renamed The Melodeon Varieties); Charles Francis Adams (1859).
1839Handel and Haydn Society.1840"Soiree musicale. The celebrated Rainer Family, or Tyrolese minstrels."1842Amateur concert for the benefit of the Warren Street Chapel.Mr. Braham.1843Vocal entertainment by H. Russell.Rossini's Stabat Mater, with Handel and Haydn Society.Dr. Lardner1844Concert by Ole Bull, assisted by Miss Stone, Mr. Herwig, Mr. Hayter, and a full orchestra.Henry Phillips, assisted by Miss Stone.William Charles Macready, Charlotte Cushman.1845Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association 13th triennial festival, 1st semi-centennial celebration.Musical entertainment by Mr. Dempster.1846Haydn's The Creation, performed by the Handel and Haydn Society.Hutchinson Family.Concert by C. Sivori.1848Steyermarkische Musical Company.1849Madame Biscaccianti and Strakosch.Services on the occasion of the decease of the late president, James K. Polk.Sermon of the Spiritual Condition of Boston, preached by Theodore Parker.1850Annetta Stephani.Handel's Jeptha, with Boston Musical Education Society."Optical wonders. Whipple's grand exhibition of dissolving views! Magnifiying daguerreotypes, kaleidoscope pictures, & pyramic fires."1852"Professor Anderson, the wizard of the North"Handel's Samson, with Handel and Haydn Society.Donetti's Comic Troupe of Acting MonkeysGermania Musical Society1854Magician Macallister."Splendid mirror of North and South America"; presented by J. Perham."Italia", panorama by Waugh.1855J. H. Siddons.Josiah Perham's Ethiopian Troupe and Great Burlesque Company.New England Anti-Slavery Convention.William Makepeace Thackeray1857Lola Montez.1858The Bunyan Tableaux.Orpheus Glee Club, Lucy A. Doane, Hugo Leonhard.1859Melodeon Minstrels.1860Parlor operas, with Mr. & Mrs. Henri Drayton.1862French Zouaves.Stereopticon.M. Lizzie Bell, Agnes A. Kenney."Master Rentz's second annual subscription concert," with the Mendelssohn Quintette Club, Adeline S. Washburn.1864Arthur Cheney, H.C. Barnabee, John F. Pray.Morton's The angel of the attic.1865A. Bronson Alcott
