The Robinson Center is a performance, convention, and exhibition space at Statehouse Plaza in downtown
Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Arkansas, most populous city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The city's population was 202,591 as of the 2020 census. The six-county Central Arkan ...
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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 architects
Eugene J. Stern and
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 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) was an American politician who served as United States Senate, United States Senator from Arkansas from 1913 to 1937, serving for four years as Party leaders of the United States Senate, ...
, 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, traveling productions of popular
Broadway
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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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This list does not include other venues such as sports stadia, dramatic theatres or convention ...
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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