Town Hall Arts Center

Town Hall Arts Center
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The front of Town Hall Arts Center in March, 2005
Location	2450 W Main St, Littleton, CO, USA
Type	Theatre
http://www.townhallartscenter.com

Littleton Town Hall
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Colorado State Register of Historic Properties

Location	2450 W. Main St., Littleton, Colorado
Coordinates	39°36′48″N 105°0′59″W / 39.61333°N 105.01639°W / 39.61333; -105.01639Coordinates: 39°36′48″N 105°0′59″W / 39.61333°N 105.01639°W / 39.61333; -105.01639
Area	0.2 acres (0.1 ha)
Built	1920
Architectural style	Italianate
Governing body	Local
NRHP Reference #	80000876^[1]
CSRHP #	5AH.161
Added to NRHP	September 4, 1980

Town Hall Arts Center is located in downtown Littleton, Colorado and has been a local professional theatre favorite, producing fine comedies, musicals and plays to the Denver Metro area for over 30 years.

Starting out

Designed by prominent Colorado architect Jacques Benedict and built in 1920 as a new center for civic activities, the building contained city offices, a community meeting room (where the theatre is located today), a jail out back (where the loading dock now is) and the volunteer fire department (the trucks were parked in what is the lobby, and the reason that lobby floor still slopes).

By the late 1970s there was a new City Hall on Berry Street, and some visionary citizens began to ponder the fate of the old building in the center of Main Street. Through a lot of fund-raising and hard work, in 1983, it opened as a performing arts center and art gallery.

Moving on

Today, the theatre is managed by a non-profit organization, The Littleton Town Hall Arts Center, Inc., doing business as Town Hall Arts Center. The Foundation has produced ten to twelve professional events a year, and offered professionally staffed, multi-cultural events to school children through the popular Actor's Playground.

In all, there are close to 150 performances presented each year, individual art shows in the Stanton Gallery, plus many community meetings in its facilities. These are accomplished with a volunteer Board of Directors, a full-time staff of eight, eight part-time staffers and numerous volunteers.

The Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) through the Arapahoe County Cultural Council provides a major grant each year, with additional grants from the City of Littleton and the Littleton Independent newspaper, plus donations and sponsorships from businesses, organizations and individuals, in addition to the ticket revenues generated by the Town Hall presentations.