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One of the Huntington Library's most botanically important gardens, the Desert Garden brought together a group of plants that were largely unknown and unappreciated in the early 1900s. Featuring a broad category of xerophytes (aridity-adapted plants), the Desert Garden grew to preeminence and remains today among the world's finest, with more ...
The 3,000-square-foot (280 m 2) Desert Garden Conservatory serves The Huntington and public communities as a conservation facility, research resource and genetic diversity preserve. John N. Trager is the Desert Collection curator. There are an estimated 10,000 succulents worldwide, about 1,500 of them classified as cacti.
This is a list of seating capacities for sports and entertainment arenas in the United States with at least 1,000 seats. The list is composed mostly of arenas that house sports teams (basketball, ice hockey, arena soccer and arena football) and serve as indoor venues for concerts and expositions.
The $10.5 million Huntington Civic Center was completed in 1977 and was the largest in the state of West Virginia when it opened. [2]At the time, the city felt it would not be able to accommodate Marshall University basketball, and the arena was thus built in a location that Marshall objected to, and used a design that was not sports-friendly.
The six-year, $2.1 million naming rights and sponsorship agreement includes three renewal options of six years each, and could mean total Huntington payments of $11 million. The proceeds are to be applied to paying down the arena's $90 million debt. [14] The Huntington Center hosted the 2019 CCM/ECHL All Star Classic on January 21, 2019. [15]
Following an effort by Huntington native Robert Edmunds and his Huntington Theatre Organ Project, a 1927 Wurlitzer organ was purchased and reinstalled in the Keith-Albee in 2001. [6] In the 1960s and 1970s, the Keith-Albee and the Hyman family began to feel the impact of competition from the growing television and motion picture industries.
The Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts (or CCPA) is a 154,000-square-foot (14,300 m 2) entertainment and music venue located in the Cerritos Towne Center of Cerritos, California. It is owned and operated by the City of Cerritos and it opened its doors to the public on January 9, 1993, and hosts opera , cabaret , jazz , dance, magic, drama ...
Jack Cook Field is a baseball stadium in Huntington, West Virginia. It is the current home field for Marshall University's baseball team and for the Tri-State Coal Cats in the Appalachian League. [2] The field is named after former longtime Marshall head baseball coach, Jack Cook.