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The Hall was restored in 1995 and has since won awards, including the 1996 Massachusetts Historical Commission Preservation Award, the Victorian Society in America's Preservation Commendation, the 1996 Boston Preservation Alliance Award, the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America Award of
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reported that it was "a place of entertainment that European musicians who were present that evening say excels in beauty anything of the kind they ever saw." Even a decade later, it describes itself as an "imposing Conservatory Building".
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Many performances have taken place in Jordan Hall, including some 650 student performances a year as well as appearances by virtually every important classical musician of the past century. That list includes performers
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The hall opened in 1903, as a gift of Eben D. Jordan II, a Conservatory trustee and son of the founder of the
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1996 Lumen Award. The Conservatory's main building, which includes Jordan Hall, was added to the
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in 1994; in both cases the name used is "New England Conservatory of Music."
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hosts a series of holiday concerts in Jordan Hall each year. In 1973,
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of Boston's Wheelwright & Haven, who later designed nearby
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Exterior facade of Jordan Hall from Huntington Avenue
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Jordan Hall is located in Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates
42°20′28″N 71°5′11″W / 42.34111°N 71.08639°W / 42.34111; -71.08639
Massachusetts Avenue
Symphony
New England Conservatory of Music
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U.S. National Historic Landmark
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Boston's Symphony Hall
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National Historic Landmark
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Horticultural Hall
Santa Maria della Scala
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Jordan Marsh
Boston Symphony Orchestra
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