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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:33:00

One determined philanthropist gave Nashville its Broadway house. Andrew Jackson Hall, the 2,472-seat flagship of the Tennessee Performing Arts Center at 505 Deaderick Street, exists because Martha Rivers Ingram - appointed to the Kennedy Center's advisory board in 1972 - spent eight years and outlasted three governors selling her home city on a public-private performing arts center built beneath a state office building across from the Capitol. TPAC opened in 1980 and drew 84,000 attendees to nea...