Chautauqua Auditorium, Historical auditorium in Waxahachie, United States.

The Chautauqua Auditorium is an octagonal wooden building in Getzendaner Memorial Park with movable windows and seating for about 2,500 people. The space was designed for theater and music performances as well as major community events.

The Chautauqua Auditorium was built in 1902 by the Waxahachie Chautauqua Park Association to hold crowds for the annual Chautauqua gatherings held in Waxahachie since 1899. Speakers and performers including William Jennings Bryan and Will Rogers appeared there. The hall was renovated in 1974, the year it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 3, and in 1977 it hosted the Open Road Music Festival.

The name comes from the Chautauqua movement, whose annual gatherings in Waxahachie began in 1899 and drew crowds to hear speakers and performers such as William Jennings Bryan and Will Rogers. The hall built for those meetings in 1902 later hosted the Open Road Music Festival in 1977 and today stages Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra concerts and country music shows.

The venue is centrally located in Waxahachie and easy to reach, with ample parking nearby. The building is accessible from the outside and the interior spaces accommodate various types of events.

The two sides of movable windows allowed natural air circulation on warm days and made it an innovative design for the early 1900s. This practical solution shows how early architecture dealt with climate long before artificial air conditioning arrived.