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AKA: Wheeler Civic Auditorium, Gilroy, CA
Structure Type: built works - public buildings - assembly halls
Designers: Binder and Curtis, Architects (firm); William Binder (architect); Ernest N. Curtis (architect)
Dates: constructed 1940
Philanthropist and seed farm businessman Linwood Wheeler (d. 1944) endowed this combined assembly hall, civic center and armory in 1940; this Streamlined building cost $60,000 to erect.
An article in the West Coast architecture magazine, Architect and Engineer, indicated in 1938 that the civic auditorium in Gilroy, CA, would cost $70,000. A Public Works Administration (PWA) grant was sought to start construction.
Roofing work was done on the auditorium in October 2006.
PCAD id: 7909
