Webster Hall
Webster Hall just before Halloween 2010
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| Former names | The Ritz |
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| Address | 119-125 East 11th Street |
| Location | New York City |
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New York City Subway:        at 14th Street-Union Square at Third Avenue
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| Owner | Casa Galicia of New York (operated by Lon, Stephen, Douglas, and Peter Ballinger) |
| Type | Concert Venue & Nightclub |
| Capacity | Grand Ballroom: 1,500 Marlin Room: 600 Studio: 400 |
| Construction | |
| Built | 1886 |
| Renovated | 1992 |
| Website | |
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| Webster Hall and Annex | |
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| Coordinates | 40°43′54″N 73°59′21″W / 40.73167°N 73.98917°WCoordinates: 40°43′54″N 73°59′21″W / 40.73167°N 73.98917°W |
| Architect | Charles Rentz |
| Governing body | private |
| Designated | March 18, 2008 |
Webster Hall is a nightclub and concert venue located at 125 East 11th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues, near Astor Place, in the East Village of Manhattan, New York City. Built in 1886, its current incarnation was opened by the Ballinger Brothers in 1992. It serves as a nightclub, concert venue, corporate events space, and recording studio, has a capacity of 2,500 people – including the club; 1,500 for the Grand Ballroom, 600 for the Marlin Room at Webster Hall and 400 for the Studio at Webster Hall.
On March 18, 2008, after a landmarks proposal was submitted by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated Webster Hall and its Annex a New York City landmark.
According to Pollstar Magazine, as of August 1, 2016, Webster Hall is the #1 Club Venue in New York by ticket sales, and #3 in the world.
Webster Hall was built in 1886 by architect Charles Rentz in the Queen Anne style and topped with an elaborate mansard roof. Six years later in 1892, Rentz was hired to design an addition to the building, occupying the site of 125 East 11th Street and designed in the Renaissance Revival style using the same materials as the original building. Throughout the early twentieth century the building was plagued by fires, which occurred in 1902, 1911, 1930, 1938, and 1949. The original mansard roof was likely lost in one these fires.
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