Olympia Theatre (New York)
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The Olympia Theatre was a theatre complex in Longacre Square (later Times Square) consisting of a theatre, a music hall, a concert hall, and a roof garden, built by Oscar Hammerstein I. The New York Times wrote, "The Olympia is a beautiful, massive gray stone building, extending 203 feet (62 m) on Longacre Square, 104 feet (32 m) on Forty-fifth Street, and 101 feet (31 m) on Forty-fourth Street. Its material is Indiana limestone, richly carved and ornamented, and it presents one of the most imposing façades on Broadway. The lines of the French Renaissance were closely followed in its designing." It was designed by J. B. McElfatrick & Sons.
The building was opened on November 25, 1895 with over 30 performers from Europe appearing. It was the second theater to open in what is now known as the Times Square Theater district. The first was the Empire Theatre, on the Southeast corner of 40th Street and Broadway.
The building was converted to a movie theatre in the Twentieth Century and demolished in 1935. As of 2007, the site is now the restaurant Bond 45.
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