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).
1839
Handel and Haydn Society.
1840
"Soiree musicale. The celebrated Rainer Family, or Tyrolese minstrels."
1842
Amateur concert for the benefit of the Warren Street Chapel.
Mr. Braham.
1843
Vocal entertainment by H. Russell.
Rossini's Stabat Mater, with Handel and Haydn Society.
Dr. Lardner
1844
Concert 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.
1845
Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association 13th triennial festival, 1st semi-centennial celebration.
Musical entertainment by Mr. Dempster.
1846
Haydn's The Creation, performed by the Handel and Haydn Society.
Hutchinson Family.
Concert by C. Sivori.
1848
Steyermarkische Musical Company.
1849
Madame 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.
1850
Annetta 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 Monkeys
Germania Musical Society
1854
Magician Macallister.
"Splendid mirror of North and South America"; presented by J. Perham.
"Italia", panorama by Waugh.
1855
J. H. Siddons.
Josiah Perham's Ethiopian Troupe and Great Burlesque Company.
New England Anti-Slavery Convention.
William Makepeace Thackeray
1857
Lola Montez.
1858
The Bunyan Tableaux.
Orpheus Glee Club, Lucy A. Doane, Hugo Leonhard.
1859
Melodeon Minstrels.
1860
Parlor operas, with Mr. & Mrs. Henri Drayton.
1862
French Zouaves.
Stereopticon.
M. Lizzie Bell, Agnes A. Kenney.
"Master Rentz's second annual subscription concert," with the Mendelssohn Quintette Club, Adeline S. Washburn.
1864
Arthur Cheney, H.C. Barnabee, John F. Pray.
Morton's The angel of the attic.
1865
A. Bronson Alcott
