Saint Paul, MN: Saint Paul Auditorium

Country: United States of America
State: Minnesota
City: Saint Paul
Location: W 5th Street / W 4th Street

Multi-purpose hall, built 1906-1907 as "St. Paul Auditorium", also known as "Municipal Auditorium". 1931-1932 major extension by an arena by Clarence W. Wigington. Old auditorium wing demolished 1982; arena wing renamed "Roy Wilkins Auditorium".

Later, the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts was built partly on the former site of the old auditorium.

Links: www.scottymoore.net, Wikidata

Saint Paul, MN: Saint Paul Auditorium Front Text: "St. Paul Auditorium Theatre, St. Paul, Minn.", inscriptions: "Mozart, Meyerbeer, Beethoven, Wagner"
Reverse Text: "The Auditorium of St. Paul is the first and only building in the world which has been quipped with the peculiar devices which provide for its almost instantaneous transformation from a theatre to a great public hall, a city block in length."
Publisher: Wright, Barrett & Stilwell Company, St. Paul; Photo Copyright 1907 by T. W. Ingersoll
Type: Divided Back
Size: Classic
Sent: within Vernon Center MN, 1910

Saint Paul, MN: Saint Paul Auditorium Front Text: "Interior Municipal Auditorium, St. Paul, Minn.", inscriptions: "Beethoven, Wagner, Gounod, Bach"
Publisher: V. O. Hammon Publishing, Minnesota and Chicago
Type: Divided Back
Size: Classic
Not sent.

Saint Paul, MN: Saint Paul Auditorium Front Text: "Detail of swinging box balcony, St. Paul Auditorium, St. Paul, Minn."
Publisher: A. C. Hosselman & Co., New York
Type: Divided Back
Size: Classic
Sent: from Saint Paul to Miles City MT, 1911

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