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A banquet hall, function hall, or reception hall, is a special purpose room, or a building, used for hosting large social and business events. Typically a banquet hall is capable of serving dozens to hundreds of people a meal in a timely fashion. People and organizations rent them to hold parties, banquets, wedding receptions, or other social ...
Floor plan of the Golden Hall. A location for festivities in the central building of Stockholm City Hall was ordered in 1908 by the city councillor in the building programme for Stockholm's city hall, [3] and the name Gyllene Salen was given to it in 1909. Initially the Golden Hall was not golden but built with stone and granite. [4]
Interior of the Banqueting Hall The old Palace of Whitehall, showing the Banqueting House to the left. The Palace of Whitehall was the creation of King Henry VIII, expanding an earlier mansion that had belonged to Cardinal Wolsey, known as York Place.
Wedding reception in 17th-century Russia by Konstantin Makovsky Wedding dance of an Azerbaijani married couple. A wedding reception is a party usually held after the completion of a marriage ceremony as hospitality for those who have attended the wedding, hence the name reception: the couple receive society, in the form of family and friends, for the first time as a married couple.
In other large houses, a large room such as the main drawing room, long gallery, or hall may double as a ballroom, but, a good ballroom should have the right type of flooring, such as hardwood flooring or stone flooring (usually marble or stone). [citation needed]. For most styles of modern dance, a wooden sprung floor offers the best surface.
Grand Prospect Hall, also known as Prospect Hall, was a large Victorian-style banquet hall at 263 Prospect Avenue in the South Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. It was primarily an event space, hosting weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs , and high-school proms .
The Lodge Room has an 18-foot (5.5 m) ceiling and rich cherry wood paneling, [4] original embossed cotton anaglypta, and paintings at both ends of the hall depicting Egyptian scenes, including a sphinx and pyramid. [3] There was originally a third-story arched balcony/arcade visually connecting the Lodge Room with the Banquet Hall.
ExploreAsheville.com Arena [1] (formerly the "Asheville Civic Center Arena" from 1974–2011) is the main arena/venue of the civic center. It holds 7,674 guests. Thomas Wolfe Auditorium (originally the "Asheville City Auditorium" from 1940 to 1975) is a horseshoe-shaped theatre located to the north of the arena.