The Robinson Center is a performance, convention, and exhibition space at Statehouse Plaza in downtown
Little Rock, Arkansas
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The most notable architectural feature of the complex is the south façade of the Robinson Center Music Hall, a building constructed in 1939 to a design by Eugene Stern of the local architectural firm Wittenberg & Delony.
It is adorned with columns that echo the Greek Revival style also found in the centerpiece of the plaza, the
Old State House Museum
The Old State House, formerly called the Arkansas State House, is the oldest surviving state capitol building west of the Mississippi River. It was the site of the secession convention, as well as the fourth constitutional convention when dele ...
. The music hall was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 2007, as the Joseph Taylor Robinson Municipal Auditorium.
Additional meeting space complementing Robinson Center's offerings are located to the east of the Old State House, inside the Statehouse Convention Center.
The center is named for
Joseph Taylor Robinson
Joseph Taylor Robinson (August 26, 1872 – July 14, 1937), also known as Joe T. Robinson, was an American politician from Arkansas. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Arkansas in the United States Senate from 1913 to 1937, serving ...
, a powerful former U.S. Senator and Congressman and Arkansas governor, and is one of several locations and facilities that bear his name.
The Robinson Center Music Hall and Conference Center is the primary performance space for the
Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Arkansas Symphony Orchestra is a professional orchestra based in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Concert venues
*Witherspoon Auditorium at Arkansas Tech University
*Albert Pike Masonic Center in downtown Little Rock
* Robinson Center
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, traveling productions of popular
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plays and musicals, and various concerts throughout the year. It seats 2,222.
The new conference center on the north-facing side of the building overlooks the Arkansas River. It features multiple meetings spaces, ballrooms and a terrace capable of hosting weddings, conferences and conventions for a wide variety of organizations.
Robinson Center is administered by the Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau, a city government division which maintains its primary offices inside the Cromwell Building across the plaza from the hall.
See also
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List of concert halls
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References
External links
Robinson Centerpage at the Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau's LittleRockMeetings.com website
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Buildings and structures in Little Rock, Arkansas
Performing arts centers in Arkansas
Tourist attractions in Little Rock, Arkansas
Government buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
Theatres on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
National Register of Historic Places in Little Rock, Arkansas