October 15, 1900: Symphony Hall opens, at 301 Massachusetts Avenue in the Back Bay section of Boston. It was designed by American's most prominent architectural firm of the time, McKim, Mead and White. It remains one of America's leading classical concert halls.
It seats 2,625 people, and is located a block east of the New England Conservatory of Music, and half a mile south of Berklee College of Music. It serves as home to the Boston Pops, still one of America's foremost orchestras.
Its organ is a 4,800-pipe Aeolian-Skinner, installed in 1949, and autographed, not by a musical personality, but by famed physician Albert Schweitzer. It was overhauled in 2003, and the entire stage was replaced in 2006.
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October 15, 1900 was a Monday. Baseball season had just ended. Football was in midweek. And professional basketball and hockey didn't yet exist. So there were no scores on this historic day.
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