Glenn & Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center, Arts and performance center in downtown Hillsboro, Oregon.
The Glenn & Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center is a three-story stone structure in downtown Hillsboro designed to host cultural events and performances. The building contains a performance hall seating around 200 people, several classrooms, and exhibition galleries for visual arts.
The building began as Trinity Lutheran Church in 1949, serving the community for many years as a place of worship. The city acquired and repurposed it, converting the structure into a public cultural center that serves the broader community today.
The center serves as a meeting place for local artists and audiences who gather regularly throughout the year. Performances and exhibitions here shape the creative life of the town and draw people from the surrounding area.
The center is easily accessible on foot from downtown and provides different spaces for various types of visits. Rooms can be reserved for private events, making it flexible for different needs and group sizes.
The red stone was quarried in Camas, Washington, and sold to Trinity Lutheran Church for $1,000 on condition that the congregation haul it to Hillsboro itself. The church bought the Fifth and Main lot in 1941 and finished the building in 1949; the city later paid $1.325 million for the property in November 2000.
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