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Spirit Square opened in 1976 as an arts center offering dance, visual arts, theater and music. [1] In 1972, First Baptist Church announced it was selling its buildings on North Tryon Street. In November 1974, Ferebee, Walters, and Associates said the cost of converting the old church into an arts center would be $1 million.
Blumenthal Arts is a not-for-profit, multi-venue performing arts complex located in Charlotte, North Carolina. Opening in November 1992, Blumenthal owns and operates 4 theaters on 2 campuses in Uptown Charlotte .
The plan was the next stage following a 1976 plan that led to such projects as Spirit Square, Discovery Place, and North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center. The $236 million first phase, including an $84 million endowment , included moving the Mint Museum uptown, a new contemporary art museum named for Andreas Bechtler , a new Afro ...
Theatre venues in North Carolina include: In Charlotte. Actor's Theatre of Charlotte; Carolina Actors Studio Theatre; ImaginOn; Blumenthal Performing Arts Center; Theatre Charlotte; Charlotte Shakespeare; In Durham. Durham Performing Arts Center; In Flat Rock. Flat Rock Playhouse, the state theatre of North Carolina; In Hayesville. Peacock ...
The Carolina Theatre in Charlotte, North Carolina, is a historic movie house currently undergoing restoration to become a performing arts center and civic convening space. The theatre is owned by the nonprofit Foundation For The Carolinas.
Tallest building in New Jersey upon its completion from 1926 to 1930. Tallest building constructed in Newark in the 1920s. [67] [68] 21= New Jersey Bell Headquarters Building (Walker House) 260 ft (79 m) 20 1929 Ralph Thomas Walker, architect. Converted to residential building, renamed the Walker House in 2017 [69] [70] [71] 21= 24 Commerce Street
The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art in Charlotte, North Carolina, is a 36,500-square-foot (3,390 m 2) museum space dedicated to the exhibition of mid-20th-century modern art. The modern art museum is part of the new Levine Center for the Arts in Uptown. The museum building was designed by architect Mario Botta.
In 1974, Mary T. Harper, Ph.D. (1935-2020), [4] an assistant professor of English at the UNC-Charlotte, proposed an Afro-American cultural center for the city of Charlotte. [4] Working with her mentor, Bertha Maxwell-Roddey, Ph.D., director of UNC-Charlotte's Black Studies Center, Harper envisioned a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Afro-American Cultural ...