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o The Kennedy Center

In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an act to begin
fund-raising for a national cultural center that would attract the
world’s best orchestras, opera, and dance companies to the US
capital. President John F. Kennedy was an ardent sup porter of
the arts, taking the lead in fund-raising for it. He never saw
the completion of the center, which was named in his
honor. Designed by Edward Durrell Stone, it was opened on
September 8, 1971 and houses several huge theaters; the Opera
House, the Concert Hall, the Eisen hower Theater, and the Family
Theater; on the roof are the Jazz Club, the Terrace Theater, and Don Quixote Statue
This bronze and stone
the Theater Lab. statue by Aurelio
Teno was a gift
to the center
The Eisenhower Theater from Spain.
This is one of the three main
theaters. A bronze bust of
President Eisenhower by
Felix de Weldon hangs
in the lobby.

Millennium Stage
The Millennium Stage provides
free performances in the Grand
Foyer every evening at 6pm.

KEY
1 East Roof Terrace
2 The Hall of Nations houses the
flag of every country with which
the US has diplomatic relations. The Hall of States
3 The Concert Hall is the largest The flags of each of the
auditorium, seating more than 50 American states,
2,400 people. It is the home of the five US territories,
the National Symphony Orchestra. and the District of
Columbia hang here.

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