Judson and Joyce Green Center for the Performing Arts records

The Performing Arts Center completed construction in 1976. The elegant multi-story complex was designed by Holabird and Root architects in a modernistic style with lavish use of glass and plain red-brick facing on both exterior and interior walls. The three-story academic building housing the offices and classrooms of the department of communication arts and sciences as well as the teaching studios of the Schoool of Music, 53 practice rooms, and a music library. The academic wing was named Burkhart Hall in honor of Ardath Y. and John Burkhart. Elevated passageways connected it with the performing component, which contains the 1500-seat Kresge Auditorium named for donors Dorothy M. and Stanley Kresge, the 400-seat Moore Theater named for Frank M. Moore, and the 200-seat Thompson Recital Hall named for Van Denman Thompson, longtime director of the School of Music.