NRHP: West Point City Auditorium

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West Point City Auditorium

NRHP Reference #: 09000904

NRHP Listing Date: 20091110

Location

237 W Main, West Point, Cuming County, Nebraska

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Summary

The West Point Cadet Band engaged in an aggressive fundraising campaign to construct a City Auditorium in the summer of 1911. The building, with an impressive Jacobethian Revival façade and full-scale flyloft, was sufficiently complete to host a New Year's Eve dance to ring in 1912. Over the next several decades, the Auditorium served West Point as the site of countless concerts, dances, receptions, theatrical performances, meetings and speeches. In 1945, the townspeople voted to purchase and remodel the building, indicating its significance to the community.

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