Grandview Park Music Pavilion

Iowa, United States

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Located in Sioux City, Iowa, the Grandview Park Music Pavilion is a Streamline Moderne shell venue built during the Great Depression through a combination of civic ambition and federal relief funding. Conceived by the Monahan Post Band in 1930, the project stalled after initial designs faced neighborhood opposition. After President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Civil Works Administration in 1933, the city successfully applied to include the music shell in its CWA projects. Architect Henry L. Kamphoefner, then relatively unknown in Sioux City, designed the structure, while sculptor Herschel Elarth created the decorative plaques adorning its front. Approved on February 26, 1934, as CWA Project Number 217, the construction consumed 52 tons of reinforcing steel and over 4,000 bags of cement, culminating in a completed venue on October 17, 1934. The pavilion accommodates 5,000 spectators in a natural amphitheater setting and was dedicated in spring 1935. The Monahan Post Band performed there until 1948, when it became the Sioux City Municipal Band, a tradition continuing to this day. The pavilion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.