Kingsbury Hall
Salt Lake City, Utah
The University of Utah dedicated its first auditorium, Kingsbury Hall, on 22 May 1930. The $275,000 assembly hall was funded by the State of Utah and named in honor of Joseph T. Kingsbury, who served as President of the University from 1897 until 1926. Kingsbury Hall is one of nine buildings in the University Circle historic district, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The auditorium was built with a projection booth and an organ loft, to accommodate silent films.
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Magna Showing Signs of New Life
Deseret News, 26 June 1994, page M1
Article Summary:
“Leo Ware, a 71-year-old engineer and actor, has been working for more than a decade to almost single-handedly renovate the Empress Theater on historic Main Street. Standing amid newlypoured concrete platforms inside the hollow shell of the former movie showplace, he talks about staging live theater productions in the round or showing a short movie for tourists. The theater would seat an audience of 230.”
