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/ October 19, 2026
The MassMutual Center is a multi-purpose arena and convention complex in downtown Springfield, Massachusetts, that has served as the city’s sports and entertainment hub since opening as the Springfield Civic Center on September 5, 1972. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company secured naming rights in 2005…
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/ October 19, 2026
The International Amphitheatre rose at 4220 South Halsted Street in Chicago’s Canaryville neighborhood, built in 1934 next to the Union Stock Yards to host the International Live Stock Exhibition. Designed by architect Abraham Epstein for about $1.5 million, it became a prototype for modern convention…
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/ October 19, 2026
The Omaha Civic Auditorium was a multi-purpose convention and entertainment complex in downtown Omaha, Nebraska, dedicated in January 1955 after construction finished in 1954. Designed by architect Leo A. Daly and built by the Kiewit Corporation, it stood at 1804 Capitol Avenue and became the…
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/ October 19, 2026
Jubilee Arena was a small indoor ice rink in Montreal, Quebec, built in 1909 at the corner of rue St. Catherine Est and rue Alphonse-D. Roy Street. Owned by P. J. Doran, the modest 3,200-seat venue became an unlikely flashpoint in professional hockey history during…
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/ October 19, 2026
Island Garden was a modest, 5,200-seat arena in West Hempstead, New York, built in 1957 by Arnold “Whitey” Carlson. For a brief but colorful stretch, the barn-like venue on Long Island punched well above its weight, hosting everything from circuses and rodeos to a run…
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/ October 19, 2026
The Tacoma Dome opened on April 21, 1983, in Tacoma, Washington, drawing roughly 25,000 people to its opening ceremonies. Designed by local architects Jim McGranahan and Lyn Messenger after they won an international design competition, the $44 million project became an instant landmark for its…
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/ October 19, 2026
Wharton Field House has stood at 1800 20th Avenue in Moline, Illinois since December 21, 1928, built for $175,000 through bonds sold by the city’s Maroon and White Association. Designed by local architect William Schulzke and originally called the Moline Field House, the building was…
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/ October 19, 2026
Fair Park Coliseum opened in 1955 on the historic Fair Park grounds east of downtown Dallas, becoming one of the city’s earliest dedicated indoor arenas for sports and live events. Built to seat around 7,000 at its debut, the coliseum quickly became a hub for…
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/ October 19, 2026
Moody Coliseum is a multi-purpose arena on the SMU campus in University Park, Texas, an inner suburb of Dallas. Opened on December 3, 1956, as the SMU Coliseum, it was renamed in 1965 to honor Galveston businessman William Lewis Moody Jr., whose foundation has long…
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/ October 19, 2026
Long Island Arena opened in 1959 in Commack, New York, after a construction process that stretched back to 1956. Built under the direction of longtime New York Rangers business manager Thomas P. Lockhart, the venue became the main indoor sports and entertainment hall for Suffolk…
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/ October 19, 2026
Lakefront Arena has stood on the campus once known as the University of New Orleans since November 1, 1983, when Lionel Richie christened the building with two sold-out concerts. Officially named the Senator Nat G. Kiefer LSU New Orleans Lakefront Arena, the venue sits near…
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/ October 19, 2026
Philadelphia Convention Hall and Civic Center opened in 1931 at 3400 Civic Center Boulevard near the University of Pennsylvania campus, built as the Municipal Auditorium before becoming known simply as Convention Hall. For decades it served as the city’s go-to venue for everything from presidential…
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/ October 19, 2026
ARCO Arena opened on September 20, 1985, in Sacramento, California, as a fast-tracked, low-cost venue built to give the newly relocated Sacramento Kings a place to play. The team had moved from Kansas City after the NBA approved the relocation that April on the condition…
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/ October 19, 2026
Pacific Coliseum opened on January 8, 1968, at Hastings Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, built at a cost of roughly C$6 million. Designed by W. K. Noppe along with Phillips, Barratt, Hillier, Jones and Partners, the arena quickly became the city’s premier venue for major-league…
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/ October 19, 2026
The Teaneck Armory is a National Guard facility and multi-purpose arena in Teaneck, New Jersey. Construction broke ground in October 1936 and the brick drill hall was completed in 1938 on a 13.66-acre site that was once a county poor farm. Designed by architect Louis…
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/ October 19, 2026
The Fort Worth Convention Center has anchored downtown Fort Worth, Texas since it opened on September 30, 1968, as the Tarrant County Convention Center. Fourteen city blocks of the old “Hell’s Half Acre” district were cleared to build the complex, which the City of Fort…
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/ October 19, 2026
Jersey Mike’s Arena is the home basketball venue for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights in Piscataway, New Jersey, on the university’s Livingston Campus. The building opened on November 30, 1977 as the Rutgers Athletic Center, spent over three decades known as the Louis Brown Athletic Center…
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/ October 19, 2026
Upstate Medical University Arena sits at 515 Montgomery Street in downtown Syracuse, New York, inside the building long known as the Onondaga County War Memorial. Opened on September 12, 1951 after a two-year, $3.7 million construction project, the arena was designed by Edgarton & Edgarton…
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/ October 19, 2026
Kansas City Municipal Auditorium opened in 1935 as the centerpiece of the city’s ambitious ‘Ten-Year Plan’ public works program, and it was formally dedicated the following year with President Franklin D. Roosevelt on hand as keynote speaker. Designed in Streamline Moderne and Art Deco style…
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/ October 19, 2026
Mount Royal Arena stood at the corner of Mount Royal Avenue and St. Urbain Street in Montreal, Quebec, built in a hurry after the Canadiens’ previous rink, the Jubilee Arena, burned down in the spring of 1919. Construction moved quickly, and the building opened its…
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