In recent wanderings through Alabama Mosaic I came across this 1940's photograph of the amphitheater on Auburn University's campus. I seem to remember seeing a few events there in my time at Auburn during the 1970's.
The formal name of the facility is the Graves Centre and Amphitheatre. As noted below, the location has been used for various assemblies over the years. The Centre was a facility for agriculture and then fisheries conferences and the original 30 cottages housed guests.. Athletics the occupied the cottages for a while. When the cottages were torn down is unknown. The amphitheater is built of Belgian granite blocks from the streets of Montgomery.
Also below is a link to the Change.org petition seeking to remove the name of Alabama governor David Bibb Graves from the facility.
Apparently there s a plan for another amphitheater to be built at the school's Ag Heritage Park.
The amphitheater about 1940 with two guest cottages in the background
A more recent photo of the amphitheater taken from a Change.org petition to remove the name of David Bibb Graves from the facility.
These two images appear in Lengthening Shadows that contains information about Auburn University buildings up to the time of publication in 1977.
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