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A movie palace built as a memorial to the father of vaudeville became Boston's grandest surviving theatre. The Citizens Bank Opera House at 539 Washington Street opened on 29 October 1928 as the B.F. Keith Memorial Theatre, commissioned by Edward Albee as a tribute to his late business partner Benjamin Franklin Keith and designed by Thomas W. Lamb, the leading theatre architect of the age, in a lavish blend of French and Italian styles finished in Carrara marble, gold leaf and silk. Days before ...