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building. Visitors entered through the crenelated archway, proceeded along a dark winding passage, and then ascended a winding staircase to an elevated viewing platform. Skylights lit the scene by day, and it was illuminated by a system of 25
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Another, competing cyclorama building was built two blocks from the first, and displayed a cyclorama of
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By the 1890s, it had become an industrial space, used by the Albert Champion Company. In 1907,
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building was commissioned by Charles F. Willoughby's Boston Cyclorama Company to house the
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bought the building in 1923, it added a new entrance and covered central dome with a
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which, when it was built, was the largest dome in the country after that on the
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National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Boston, Massachusetts
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Event venues on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
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The competing Battle of Bunker Hill Cyclorama, 1889
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Cyclorama Building (Boston) is located in Massachusetts
Cyclorama Building (Boston) is located in the United States
Boston, Massachusetts
42°20′40″N 71°4′19″W / 42.34444°N 71.07194°W / 42.34444; -71.07194
Cummings and Sears
Classical Revival
Victorian
South End District
ID73000324
73000318
South End
Boston, Massachusetts
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