Indiana University Auditorium – Bloomington IN

City:
Bloomington, IN

Site Type:
Education and Health, Colleges and Universities

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)

Completed:
1941

Artist:
Thomas Hart Benton

Designer:
A.M. Strauss

Quality of Information:
Very Good

Marked:
Yes

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

In the 1930s through the early 1940s, Indiana University’s Bloomington campus was expanded through New Deal funding. The construction of the IU Auditorium (formerly the Hall of Music) began in 1938 with PWA funding. The Auditorium is built with Southern Indiana limestone and houses Thomas Hart Benton’s “Century of Progress” murals.

Source notes

Personal research Auditorium plaque University Board of Trustee minutes

Site originally submitted by Jessica George on October 25, 2015.

Location Info


1211 E. 7th Street
Bloomington, IN 47905
Monroe County

Coordinates: 39.168637, -86.517404

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