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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:30:00

Fort Worth built it in 340 days flat, racing the calendar to honor a Texas Centennial and a dead humorist at the same time. Will Rogers Auditorium, the 2,856-seat Art Deco theater at 3401 West Lancaster Avenue in the Cultural District, went up in 1936 as part of the Will Rogers Memorial Center and was dedicated on January 10, 1937. The complex - auditorium to the west, domed coliseum to the east, the 209-foot Pioneer Tower between them - was designed by Wyatt C. Hedrick with Elmer G. Withers an...