Macon City Auditorium, Performance venue in Macon, United States.
The Macon City Auditorium is a Neoclassical building with limestone Doric columns on three sides and a circular floor plan reminiscent of the Pantheon in Rome. The main hall seats approximately 2,688 people, with 1,700 seats on the main floor and 988 seats in the cantilevered balcony, supplemented by three separate meeting rooms.
The building was designed in 1925 by New York architect Egerton Swartwout and later recognized with a National Register of Historic Places listing. This designation acknowledged its importance as a notably designed structure from an era when public gathering spaces were built as community anchors.
The stage displays a mural created by artists Don Carlos Dubois and Wilbur Kurtz showing scenes from the area's past, ranging from Spanish exploration to recent times. This artwork tells the region's story to audiences gathered in one of the city's most important gathering spaces.
The auditorium stands almost directly across the street from Macon's City Hall, so it is easy to find from the downtown grid. The Great Hall holds 2,688 people: a 14,000-square-foot floor usually set with folding chairs and tables, plus a balcony with 988 fixed seats. The building is part of the Macon Centreplex, though the Coliseum with about 9,000 seats is a separate structure across the Ocmulgee River.
The copper dome above the Great Hall is claimed by many locals to be the largest in the world, though verifying this has proved difficult. The building is maintained as part of the Macon Centreplex together with the Macon Coliseum, which has about 9,000 seats against the auditorium's 2,688.
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