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Wentz Concert Hall
Bartley and Maricela Madden Theatre
Pfeiffer Hall
Meiley-Swallow Hall
Koten Chapel
Wentz Concert Hall
 North Central College’s 605-seat Wentz Concert Hall is the centerpiece of the Fine Arts Center dedicated in 2008. With acoustics designed by the Talaske Group, the 13,000-square-foot space is intimate yet able to accommodate large sound. Performers gracing the Wentz Concert Hall stage include the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis, Ramsey Lewis, Rachel Barton Pine and many others. Wentz Concert Hall is a showcase for award-winning bands, orchestras and choirs of area high schools to perform, as well as the College’s multitude of music groups and soloists. Located at the corner of Chicago Avenue and Ellsworth Street, Wentz Concert Hall is named for Dr. Myron Wentz, a 1963 alumnus of North Central College, visionary scientist, entrepreneur and lover of music who provided the lead gift for the Fine Arts Center, which includes the Bartley and Maricela Madden Theatre, the Schoenherr Art Gallery, rehearsal spaces and classrooms.
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Bartley and Maricela Madden Theatre
 North Central College’s Bartley and Maricela Madden Theatre is a black box space featuring flexible seating and staging configurations. The space is ideal for theatrical performances, film screenings, jazz and dance performances, and lectures. The 2,500-square-foot theatre seats up to 150 patrons in the round, in traditional lecture style, or other arrangements. Located in the College’s Fine Arts Center, Madden Theatre features state-of-the-art acoustics and sound-proof design. The Bartley and Maricela Madden Theatre is named in honor of a Naperville couple and neighbors of the College who made a generous gift to the Fine Arts Center. Maricela is a 1999 fine arts graduate of North Central College and Bart Madden is an independent scholar and retired financier.
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Pfeiffer Hall
 North Central College’s Pfeiffer Hall opened in 1926. The DuPage Symphony Orchestra and Naperville-North Central College Performing Arts Association called it home for decades, as have numerous community arts groups, schools, churches, organizations and the College’s musical and theatrical programs. Pfeiffer Hall features a 1,057-seat auditorium with main-floor seating for 588 and balcony seating for 469. The structure has undergone a series of renovations and improvements over the years to its exterior, interior furnishings, sound systems and air comfort systems. Pfeiffer Hall is named in honor of Barbara Pfeiffer by her sons, Henry and G.A. Pfeiffer who gave the lead gift for the building. The Pfeiffer family have been generous benefactors of North Central College.
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Meiley-Swallow Hall
 North Central College’s Meiley-Swallow Hall features a 240-seat theatre with a thrust stage that is ideal for intimate musical and theatre productions. The theatre hosts many of the College’s theatrical productions—as well as some musical events and lectures—and is open for use by community artists and groups. The building is the former Grace Evangelical Church/Central Baptist Church and was purchased by North Central College and renovated in 2007. The hall includes instructional and exhibit space for the North Central College art department, digital classrooms for the new interactive media studies program, and offices. Meiley-Swallow Hall is named in honor of the late Judy G. Meiley Swallow Stevenson, an entrepreneur and business leader, life trustee and generous benefactor to North Central College. The building was purchased with funds from the estates of two North Central College alumnae, sisters Marie Gantzert of the Class of 1933 and Bernice Gantzert of the Class of 1938.
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Koten Chapel
 North Central College’s historic Koten Chapel is an intimate setting for recitals, concerts, lectures, weddings and worship services. Built in 1913 and nestled inside Kiekhofer Hall, Koten Chapel is warm and inviting with distinctive dark wood pews and altar area, handsome stained-glass windows and soaring ceiling, providing near perfect acoustics. In 2006, the chapel was thoroughly renovated and refurbished. With new lighting, updated sound system and projection technologies, the chapel is contemporary and functional for College and community use. It seats 150, including 50 seats in the balcony, and 75 in a separate community room adjacent to the chapel for receptions and informal gatherings. Koten Chapel is easily accessible with its own drive-up entrance off Loomis Street and second entrance with elevator access from Kiekhofer Hall’s back parking lot. Since 1979—three years after North Central College purchased Kiekhofer Hall and its chapel from the Evangelical Theological Seminary—the chapel has been known as the Roy Y. and Margaret Koten Chapel, recognizing the close ties of the College to several generations of the Koten family. The recent renovations were made possible with a gift from Jane Koten, alumna of the Class of 1955, and her brother John Koten, alumnus of the Class of 1951, and his wife, Catherine.
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