Shryock Auditorium, Performing arts auditorium at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, US.
Shryock Auditorium is an auditorium on the campus of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, designed by State Architect James B. Dibelka of Chicago and built from 1916 by contractor A.W. Stoolman. Its dome was originally stained glass, removed in the 1960s and replaced with a latticework system; the original glass is kept at Morris Library's Special Collections Research Center.
The building was completed in 1918 after the Illinois General Assembly approved funding in 1915. Architect James B. Dibelka designed the structure in the neoclassical style for the growing university community.
The auditorium is named for Henry William Shryock, the university's fifth president, who died inside the building on April 13, 1935, just before a student convocation. Its Reuter pipe organ, Opus 1741, was designed by and named for organ professor Marianne Webb, who died on December 7, 2013.
The Reuter organ sits on the upper balcony, so look up from the main floor to see its pipes. The stage was replaced and a new lighting and electrical control system installed between 2002 and 2014. The lobby was remodeled in the 1969-1970 upgrade.
The auditorium's Reuter pipe organ, Opus 1741, was built in 1970 and has 3,312 pipes across 58 ranks and three manuals. It was designed by and named for organ professor Marianne Webb, who died on December 7, 2013.
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