This soaring Gothic structure houses the famous 11,000 pipe Curtis Pipe Organ. Its massive interior, which seats 1,260, is the setting for musical and dance performances, screenings, lectures, and rehearsal rooms.
The survival of the academic Gothic into the late 1920s demonstrated the power of tradition and the force of Henry Adams exposition of medieval civilization in Mont Saint Michel and Chartres on Horace Trumbauer, a Philadelphia architect favored by some members of the city's emerging wealthy class in the early 20th century, and a national representative of the Wideners and the Dukes.
