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Caption: Dedication - Foellinger Auditorium
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Imost immediately budgetary problems arose. The State Legislature decided to allocate only half of the $200,000 the University had requested for the project, a determination which profoundly affected the proposed design and construction. Blackall received the news of the reduced funding with great disappointment. He had conceived of a comprehensive structure for musical performances which would include a backstage area. Instead, he was forced to build a "temporary** wall where the backstage area was to have been and to abandon plans for a south wing of the building intended to house the School of Music. nstmcuon underway about 1906. Auditorium architect CM Blackall, graduate of the Uofi class of 1877.
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