Irvine Auditorium

Irvine Auditorium

Irvine Auditorium is a performance venue on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. It was designed by prominent architect Horace Trumbauer and is further notable for its housing of the Curtis Organ, one of the world's largest pipe organs. Its seating capacity is 1,260.

Featuring balconies that face each other but are at right angles to the stage, a persistent, but untrue campus legend holds that the auditiorium's design was a student's senior project, but received a failing grade. The legend continues that many years later, the University received a major bequest in the student's will, on condition the University erect his project.

External links

* [http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/perelmanquad/facilities/irvine_auditorium/irvine.html Irvine Auditorium at University of Pennsylvania]
* [http://www.upenn.edu/admissions/tour/tourstop.php?stop=6 Irvine Auditorium]


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