Morris Performing Arts Center

Morris Performing Arts Center
	Front of the center
Former names	Palace Theatre; Morris Civic Auditorium
Address	211 N. Michigan St.; South Bend, Indiana; United States
Owner	City of South Bend
Operator	Morris Entertainment, Inc.
Type	vaudeville house
Capacity	2,564
Current use	Performing arts center
Construction
Opened	1922
Reopened	March 3, 2000
Website
	www.morriscenter.org
	Palace Theatre
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Area	Less than 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Architect	J.S. Aroner; Ralph Sollitt Co.
Architectural style	Spanish Renaissance Revival
MPS	Downtown South Bend Historic MRA
NRHP reference No.	85001226
Added to NRHP	June 5, 1985

Morris Performing Arts Center (originally Palace Theatre and formerly Morris Civic Auditorium) is a 2,564-seat concert hall located in South Bend, Indiana. It opened in 1922 as a vaudeville house and later became a movie palace. In addition, Marian High School holds its annual commencement ceremony at the theater. It was planned for demolition in 1959 but was saved from demolition, and between 1998 and 2000, it was restored and remodeled.

Today, Morris Performing Arts Center's interior features a rose, blue and cream color scheme, as it originally did when it opened. The theater's stage, which measures 56 feet by 57 feet and contains a red and gold main curtain, dates from the 2000 restoration. The theater is home to the South Bend Symphony Orchestra and also hosts Broadway shows, concerts, and other special events. The theater's interior is notable for borrowing from European architectural styles.

More than half of the seats at Morris Performing Arts Center — 1,282 are in the balcony. The remainder of the seats are in the lower level.

In 1985, the center was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It qualified for historic designation both because of its place in the area's history and because of its historically significant architecture.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

External links

Official website

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

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