Lyceum Hall is located in Salem, Massachusetts. The structure was built in 1831 and occupied by Salem’s Lyceum Society (created a year earlier) from 1831 until their disbandment in 1898. Educational lectures and debates – “lyceums” – were held at the hall; notable lecturers include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Daniel Webster, and Horace Mann. The most well-known event to take place at Lyceum Hall was on February 12, 1877, when Alexander Graham Bell made the first long-distance telephone call in front of a large audience as his assistant, Mr. Watson, answered in Boston. A plaque (pictured) on the building memorializes this historic event, and the building is part of the National Register of Historic Places.
Images courtesy of Cosmos Mariner via The Historical Marker Database
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