The Dodge City Civic Center is a 2,500-seat multi-purpose

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. It was home to the

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team. The arena has all spectator seating on one side as a stage for community theatre is located on the other side. When Dodge City High School played home basketball games there, the student section was situated on the stage.

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also plays its home men's and women's basketball games there. The Civic Center is also home to the annual mid-season basketball tournaments (boys and girls) for the Southern Plains Iroquois Athletic Association (high school, commonly known by its acronym, SPIAA). It also often hosts a Kansas Class 1A regional or sub-state basketball tournament in late February or early March. The building was built in 1955 and designed by

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, architects of Hutchinson."Mann, Arthur Robert" in ''American Architects Directory'' (New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1956): 363.

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