In New York State, fire completely destroys the Albany Academy of Music.

The beautiful Academy of Music building had began life in 1825 as the South Pearl Street Theater and had been converted to a church in 1839.  It had reverted back to a theater under the direction of John Trimble in 1863.  When Trimble retired soon after, his daughter, Miss A.G. Trimble, became one the nation's few female theater directors.  Sadly, a devastating fire in the early hours of this day completely destroyed the building.  No-one was reported harmed but the damage was estimated at $40,000 and Miss Trimble's career as a theater manager ended.  (By John Osborne)

Source Citation

Jane Kathleen Curry, Nineteenth-Century Women Theatre Managers (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994), 122.

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