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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:04:00

A modernist master built a Greek theatre for a seminary; a university inherited it. Shelton Auditorium at 1000 West 42nd Street opened in 1966 as the centrepiece of the Christian Theological Seminary campus, designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes - the architect of the Dallas Museum of Art and Walker Art Center - in the crisp mid-century style critics called pre-Gothic. The hall honours Orman Shelton, the seminary's first president, and its steeply raked, nearly 400-seat bowl wraps the stage in the...