Benefit Fair with Evening Concerts for the Anthon Memorial Church

Event Information

Venue(s):
Everett Rooms

Price: $.20

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 July 2015

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Apr 1865, All Day
26 Apr 1865, All Day
27 Apr 1865, All Day
28 Apr 1865, All Day

Program Details

Benefit for The Anthon Memorial Church, for the purpose of raising funds towards the payment of their church debt. “Music every evening.”

Concert was originally scheduled for Sunday, April 24, 1865, but was postponed because of Lincoln’s assassination.

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 22 April 1865.

     Announces event for its original date (04/24/65).

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 23 April 1865, 7.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 24 April 1865.

     Notice of postponement. “The opening of the above Fair will be postponed until Tuesday evening, the 25th inst., in consequence of the obsequies of the late President.”