Julien Hall was a building in Boston, Massachusetts, on the corner of Congress Street and Milk Street. It flourished 1825-1843, housing a variety of public events such as lectures by Red Jacket, William Lloyd Garrison; temperance meetings; political meetings; auctions; exhibitions of live animals, portraits by William James Hubard, John H. I. Browere; performances of the "automaton chess player" and the "panharmonicon;" and so on. By 1842 boxer John Sheridan had converted space in the hall into an athletic gymnasium.
Portrait of Red Jacket, who spoke at Julien Hall, 1829
Portrait of George Thompson, who spoke at Julien Hall, 1835
John Sheridan, proprietor of Sheridan's Gymnasium, 1842-1843
William James Hubard was British-born artist who worked in England and the United States in the 19th century. He specialized in silhouette and painted portraits.
George Washington by Hubard after Houdon at the Virginia Military Institute
Profile of a man, 19th century (Brooklyn Museum)
Margaret Oliver Colt and Mary Devereux Colt in the Gardens at "Green Mount," Baltimore, 1830 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Portrait of Andrew Jackson, engraving after painting by Hubard, c. 1830s