{"nrhp_refnum":"74000673","name":"Municipal Auditorium","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"301 Pine Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Albany","county":"Dougherty County","state":"GA","lat":31.578812035000055,"lon":-84.15431022699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-06-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture","Performing Arts"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick municipal auditorium at 301 Pine Avenue in downtown Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, built about 1915 and designed by Atlanta architect A. Ten Eyck Brown.","why_significant":"The nomination cites its role in Albany's cultural life for 59 years and its origin as a venue for the Chautauqua Society's informal education programs. It also argues that the severe, streamlined, geometric design was progressive for an early 1900s auditorium. Its stage was considered one of the best in the South, and the building was threatened with demolition at the time of nomination.","narrative":"Albany Municipal Auditorium, at 301 Pine Avenue, was built around 1915 to replace an older wooden hall used by the Chautauqua Society, a group offering informal education to people with little schooling. Atlanta architect A. Ten Eyck Brown designed it as a three-story brick rectangle ringed by cubes of varying height, with brick and marble bands and a marquee entrance. Inside, an oval hall held about 1,500 seats in the orchestra, lodge and two balconies. Its large stage was regarded as one of the best in the South, and performers such as Sousa's Band and many touring Broadway productions drew audiences from across South Georgia. Local concerts, graduations and college events also took place there. At the time of nomination the building was closed and vacant, its interior paint peeling, though the structure remained sound and the exterior little changed. The nomination argued for its local importance as a forward-looking early twentieth-century auditorium and noted the threat of demolition and replacement.","period_of_significance":"20th Century (c.1915)","architect_builder":"A. Ten Eyck Brown","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as closed and vacant in 1974, structurally sound, with interior paint peeling and the stage boxes and orchestra pit closed off; proposed for demolition.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.305579-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/74000673.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000673/291412d781-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000673/291412d781-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Michael Rivera","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albany_Municipal_Auditorium_(East_face).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Rivera</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albany_Municipal_Auditorium_(East_face).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207864","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albany_Municipal_Auditorium","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4709350"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/dougherty-county/municipal-auditorium-74000673/"}