Indiana University Auditorium

In 1938, during the waning years of the Great Depression and a time when most universities had cut funding for Arts programs, construction began on the IU Auditorium. Indiana University President, Herman B. Wells, used this time to build the world’s top music school, the Lilly Library, the Fine Arts building, and of course, the IU Auditorium. The Auditorium was the first building completely planned and constructed during President Wells’s tenure. It was constructed out of locally quarried Indiana Limestone.