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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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/ October 19, 2026
Lubbock Municipal Coliseum was an 8,344-seat multi-purpose arena on the campus of Texas Tech University, built after city voters approved $1.75 million in bonds and groundbreaking began in 1954. It opened its doors in 1956 with an ABC Pro Rodeo, kicking off more than six…
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/ October 19, 2026
Loyola Field House was an indoor arena built in 1954 on the campus of Loyola University New Orleans, originally serving as the home court for the university’s Wolf Pack basketball team. For nearly two decades it was one of the city’s primary indoor sports venues…
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/ October 19, 2026
Edgerton Park Arena began its life far from the hardwood, built in 1892 as the drill hall for a Rochester, New York training school for delinquent boys. When the school relocated early in the 20th century, the sturdy brick building was repurposed into an indoor…
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/ October 19, 2026
The Denver Auditorium Arena began life as the sporting half of the Denver Municipal Auditorium, a massive downtown hall that opened on July 7, 1908, and briefly ranked as the second-largest public auditorium in the country after Madison Square Garden. The building first made history…
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/ October 19, 2026
Greensboro Coliseum opened on October 29, 1959, in Greensboro, North Carolina, as the centerpiece of the city’s new convention and entertainment complex, with an initial seating capacity of about 7,100. Officially renamed First Horizon Coliseum in October 2024 under a ten-year naming rights agreement, most…
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/ October 19, 2026
Windsor Arena, nicknamed “The Barn” by generations of local fans, opened in 1924 in Windsor, Ontario, making it one of the oldest hockey venues ever built in North America. The rink briefly made NHL history in 1926-27, when it served as the home ice for…
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/ October 19, 2026
The Big E Coliseum, formally known as the Eastern States Coliseum, is a multi-purpose arena in West Springfield, Massachusetts, that opened on October 12, 1916, as part of the grounds for the Eastern States Exposition, the regional fair known as the Big E. For decades…
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/ October 19, 2026
McCamish Pavilion is the home arena of Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men’s and women’s basketball, a domed facility on the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta, Georgia known to fans as “The Thrillerdome.” The building began life in 1956 as Alexander Memorial Coliseum, a 270-foot-diameter dome…
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/ October 19, 2026
The 69th Regiment Armory has stood at 68 Lexington Avenue in Manhattan’s Rose Hill neighborhood since it opened on October 13, 1906. Designed by the firm Hunt & Hunt in the Beaux-Arts style, it was built as the home of the “Fighting 69th,” the storied…
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/ October 19, 2026
Kemper Arena opened on September 30, 1974, in Kansas City’s West Bottoms neighborhood, built in just 18 months atop the former Kansas City Stockyards. Designed by a young Helmut Jahn in his first major commission, the arena was famous for its exterior steel trusses that…
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/ October 19, 2026
Boston University Field was the name given to the athletic grounds at 285 Babcock Street in Boston from 1954 to 1963, after Boston University purchased the former home of the Boston Braves baseball team in July 1953. Built originally in 1915 as Braves Field, the…
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/ October 19, 2026
The Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum opened on November 3, 1965, on the grounds of the Arizona State Fairgrounds in Phoenix. Built for about $7 million in private funding, the arena became known to generations of locals simply as “the Coliseum,” and to Phoenix Suns broadcaster…
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/ October 19, 2026
Kiel Auditorium opened on April 14, 1934, in downtown St. Louis as the Municipal Auditorium, a $6 million civic hall designed by the architecture firm LaBeaume & Klein. It was renamed in 1943 to honor former St. Louis mayor Henry Kiel, and for nearly six…
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/ October 19, 2026
Balboa Stadium opened in 1914 next to San Diego High School as part of the 1915 Panama-California Exposition, and it has stayed in continuous use for more than a century, longer than almost any other venue of its era on the West Coast. Built with…
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/ October 19, 2026
University of Detroit Stadium opened in 1922 on the university’s McNichols campus in Detroit, Michigan, built to give the Detroit Titans football program a permanent home. Also known as Titan Stadium or Dinan Field, the natural-grass venue held up to 25,000 fans and quickly became…
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