Victoria Theatre (Hammerstein's)

Victoria Theatre

Hammerstein's
Hammerstein’s
Address	42nd Street and Seventh Avenue New York City United States
Owner	Oscar Hammerstein I
Operator	Oscar and William Hammerstein
Type	Broadway, Vaudeville
Construction
Opened	1899
Demolished	1915
Architect	John B. McElfatrick[1][2]

The Victoria Theatre was a prominent American vaudeville house during the early years of the twentieth century. Theatre mogul Oscar Hammerstein I opened it in 1899 on the northwest corner of Seventh Avenue and 42nd Street, along New York City's Longacre Square (now Times Square).^[3] The theatre was closely associated with the Paradise Roof Garden above it, and the two venues came to be known collectively as Hammerstein's.^[4] The Victoria closed in 1915.