Chatham Garden Theatre

The Chatham Garden Theatre or Chatham Theatre was a playhouse in the Chatham Gardens of New York City.  The Chatham Garden Theatre was the first major competition to the high-class Park Theatre (though in its later years it sank to the bottom of New York's theatrical order). It changed hands many times: In 1823 it started as a makeshift playhouse under a white, canvas tent called the Pavilion Theatre.

In the spring of 1832, Lewis Tappan and William Green rented the building, which was one of NYC's largest public halls.. They offered it to the Presbyterian minister Charles Grandison Finney, a radical abolitionist who converted it into the Broadway Tabernacle/Free Presbyterian Chatham Street Chapel. The Tappan brothers also used the chapel for abolitionist meetings. In its later years, the church became a hotel. The building has since been demolished.