Theater
Tennessee Performing Arts Center
Windowless theater complex sealed into the base of a twenty-four-story government tower.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville starts with an odd fact of its design: its theaters have no windows at all, sealed into the base of a nineteen-eighties state office tower built on the old Andrew Jackson Hotel site. You will hear how Martha Ingram's nineteen seventy-two campaign for an arts center got bundled into that tower's unusual engineering, and why the Cumberland River has run just blocks away, unseen, for decades. Listen for what is rising on the horizon as you look out from the lobby.
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