Legacy Work · Higher Education · Performing Arts
Porter Family Memorial Fine Arts Building
Wesleyan College · Macon, Georgia
W. Elliott Dunwody’s mid-1950s fine-arts building gave Wesleyan a 1,200-seat auditorium, studio theater, art gallery, classrooms, and a concert organ.
- Completed
- Mid-1950s
- Auditorium
- 1,200 seats
- Studio theater
- 80 seats
- Organ installed
- 1958
The project
James Hyde Porter gave Wesleyan the building that became the college’s principal performance and arts center. Institutional sources date its completion to either 1954 or 1956; the campus historic record attributes the design to W. Elliott Dunwody.
Porter Fine Arts contains the 1,200-seat Porter Auditorium, the 80-seat Grassmann-Porter Studio Theatre, the Cowles Myles Collier Art Gallery, teaching rooms, and the Goodwyn-Candler-Panoz organ installed in 1958.
The building continues to host college productions, concerts, lectures, exhibitions, and public performances for the Macon community.
Research record
Sources and provenance
Project facts and photography were archived from the firm’s public portfolio and cross-checked against the supplementary sources below.
Wesleyan College project photograph preserved for the owner-authorized Atelier record.