New York Circuses - Revision history

Djando: /* 1797-98: LAILSON CIRCUS* */

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‎1797-98: LAILSON CIRCUS*

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‎1797-1800: RICKETTS CIRCUS*

Djando: /* 1793-94: RICKETTS CIRCUS */

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‎1793-94: RICKETTS CIRCUS

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Show changes

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‎MADISON SQUARE GARDEN

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‎JOLSON THEATRE

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 - Ricketts announces his return in December 1798, but he never makes it. The amphitheater, however, stands until at least 1800.
-===1797-98: LAILSON CIRCUS*===
+===1797-98: LAILSON CIRCUS===
 '''Greenwich Street, South of SW corner of Rector'''
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 - December 8, 1797: Philip Lailson opens a new amphitheater on Greenwich Street. He and his company perform there until February 1, 1798, but the season proves a failure. The circus is offered for sale on July 18, 1798.
 - February 8, 1799: The circus company of Franklin & Johnson leases Lailson's Circus and performs there until March 19.
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-'''<nowiki>[* </nowiki>''Questions have been raised regarding (1) The proximity of Ricketts and Lailson circuses on Greenwich Street and (2) The possibility that Lailson didn't actually leave Ricketts Circus in November 1797, but simply renovated it, improved it, and re-opened it under his own name&mdash;meaning that the two circuses could actually be one and the same.'']'' '''''
 ===1808: PEPIN & BRESCHARD CIRCUS===

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 - September 21-30, 1796: Ricketts gives a series of performances on his way back from Boston to Philadelphia (where his main circus building is located).
-===1797-1800: RICKETTS CIRCUS*===
+===1797-1800: RICKETTS CIRCUS===
 '''Greenwich Street, North of Rector.'''

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 - British equestrian John Bill Ricketts, who had just opened the first circus in America&mdash;in Philadelphia, April 3, 1793&mdash;opens the first New York circus on August 7, 1793. It is a wooden, roofless (at least in the beginning) amphitheater where Ricketts and his company perform until the fourth of November 1793.
-- September-October 1794: The circus is leased by Thomas Swann, who there gives equestrian performances and exhibits trained monkeys.
+- September-October 1794: The circus is leased by Thomas Swann, who gives there equestrian performances and exhibits trained monkeys.
 ===1794-96: RICKETTS CIRCUS===

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	The four Gardens (William Vanderbilt's [1879] and Stanford White's [1890] on Madison Square, and the Gardens on 8th and 7th Avenues) all regularly housed circus shows, principally those produced by P.T. Barnum and J.A. Bailey, then the Ringling Brothers, and finally Feld Entertainment, Inc., the parent company of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey.		The four Gardens (William Vanderbilt's [1879] and Stanford White's [1890] on Madison Square, and the Gardens on 8th and 7th Avenues) all regularly housed circus shows, principally those produced by P.T. Barnum and J.A. Bailey, then the Ringling Brothers, and finally Feld Entertainment, Inc., the parent company of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey.
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	===JOLSON THEATRE===		===JOLSON THEATRE===

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	Located at '''59th and 8th Ave.''', it features the ''Davenport's European Circus'' in the 1930s (with Con Colleano) for a Christmas season.		Located at '''59th and 8th Ave.''', it features the ''Davenport's European Circus'' in the 1930s (with Con Colleano) for a Christmas season.

		+	==Suggested Reading==
		+
		+	* Matthew Wittmann, ''Circus and the City — New York, 1793-2910'' (New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2012) — ISBN 978-0-300-18747-2
	[[Category:History\|New York Circuses]][[Category:Circuses\|New York Circuses]]		[[Category:History\|New York Circuses]][[Category:Circuses\|New York Circuses]]

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 Circus in America became an itinerant affair in the first half of the nineteenth century, but major cities, like New York, often retained a resident circus. New York's last permanent circus building, the ''Hippotheatron'', or ''New York Circus'', stood on 14th Street, near Union Square&mdash;in what was then the heart of the Theater District&mdash;until as late as 1872. But in a country in constant expansion, itinerant circuses were much more profitable, and they quickly prevailed: From roughly 1870 to 1930, they made circus the most popular performing art in America.
 Although circus buildings, like Paris's [[Cirque d'Hiver]], survived in several major European cities&mdash;and notably in Russia, where they are still the norm&mdash;American resident circuses eventually disappeared, and their very own existence has been by and large completely forgotten. Yet, from the ''Circus'' [[John Bill Ricketts]] erected in Philadelphia in 1793, to New York's ''Hippotheatron'', they had their moments of glory, and contributed greatly to the history of the American circus.
 ==Circus Structures or Buildings in New York City==

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 The following is a list of the various circus structures that were built (or buildings that were adapted) to house New York's resident circuses. Some had a very ephemeral life, other lasted several years or even decades. When they appeared in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century (see ''[[Short History of the Circus]]''), circus performances were originally presented in buildings, either permanent structures, or wooden constructions that were erected in a town, and then dismantled and transported to the next&mdash;or simply sold at wood value at the end of the run.
-Circus in America became an itinerant affair in the first half of the nineteenth century, but major cities, like New York, often retained a resident circus. New York's last permanent circus building, the ''Hippotheatron'', or ''New York Circus'', stood on 14th Street, near Union Square, until as late as 1872&mdash;in what was then the heart of the Theater District. But in a country in constant expansion, itinerant circuses were much more profitable, and they quickly prevailed: From roughly 1870 to 1930, they made circus the most popular performing art in America.
+Circus in America became an itinerant affair in the first half of the nineteenth century, but major cities, like New York, often retained a resident circus. New York's last permanent circus building, the ''Hippotheatron'', or ''New York Circus'', stood on 14th Street, near Union Square&mdash;in what was then the heart of the Theater District&mdash;until as late as 1872. But in a country in constant expansion, itinerant circuses were much more profitable, and they quickly prevailed: From roughly 1870 to 1930, they made circus the most popular performing art in America.
 Although circus buildings, like Paris's [[Cirque d'Hiver]], survived in several major European cities&mdash;and notably in Russia, where they are still the norm&mdash;American resident circuses eventually disappeared, and their very own existence has been by and large completely forgotten. Yet, from the ''Circus'' [[John Bill Ricketts]] erected in Philadelphia in 1793, to New York's ''Hippotheatron'', they had their moments of glory, and contributed greatly to the history of the American circus.

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 ''Compiled by Dominique Jando''
-The following is a list of the various circus structures that were built (or buildings that were adapted) to house New York's resident circuses. Some had a very ephemeral life, other lasted several years or even decades. When they appeared in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century (see ''[[Short History of the Circus]]''), circus performances were originally presented in buildings, either permanent structures, or wooden constructions that were erected in a town, and then dismantled and transported to the next&mdash;or simply sold at wood value.
+The following is a list of the various circus structures that were built (or buildings that were adapted) to house New York's resident circuses. Some had a very ephemeral life, other lasted several years or even decades. When they appeared in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century (see ''[[Short History of the Circus]]''), circus performances were originally presented in buildings, either permanent structures, or wooden constructions that were erected in a town, and then dismantled and transported to the next&mdash;or simply sold at wood value at the end of the run.
 Circus in America became an itinerant affair in the first half of the nineteenth century, but major cities, like New York, often retained a resident circus. New York's last permanent circus building, the ''Hippotheatron'', or ''New York Circus'', stood on 14th Street, near Union Square, until as late as 1872&mdash;in what was then the heart of the Theater District. But in a country in constant expansion, itinerant circuses were much more profitable, and they quickly prevailed: From roughly 1870 to 1930, they made circus the most popular performing art in America.