Kirby Memorial Theater was built in 1938-39, on the site of the Boyden House, a home that was at one
point a temporary College cafeteria before
Hitchcock Hall and
Valentine Hall. The Boyden House was moved in 1937, and the theater
was built after the College secured funds from a trust fund set up by Dr. Ellwood R. Kirby, a friend of
the father of Richard MacMeekin '34, a college Masquer (King, 245). |
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The building was designed by James Kellum Smith '15 of McKim, Mead & White, with the help of S.R. McCandless,
a theater designer (King, 245). At the dedication on March 17, 1939, the actor
Burgess
Meredith, ex '31, spoke (King, 246).
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