This photograph shows the amphitheatre with the lake. The amphitheatre, and a lake, were designed by J. D. Spinks, an engineer from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and constructed by the Works Project Administration (WPA), in 1941. Located on a former nine-hole golf course, it was bordered by a lake on three sides with a maze of walkways, bridges, and steps approaching the structure. It had a seating capacity of 2500 people and included an outdoor stage to be used for meetings, May Day celebrations, plays, and pageants. It was razed in 1954 and the area was restored to meadowland. A lake and an amphitheatre were designed by J. D. Spinks, an engineer from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and constructed by the Works Project Administration (WPA), in 1941. The lake was approximately six feet deep in the deeper parts and two feet deep nearer the shore. Two small creeks running through the nine-hole golf course provided the water. At the edge of the lake nearest the tennis courts, a boat house was built, affording room for eight or ten small boats. A dam was also constructed near the West Market side of the lake. It was seventy-five feet in length and held the water for the lake that covered three acres. Eventually, neighborhood complaints and the mosquitoes brought about by stagnant water caused the lake to be drained in1954. It was subsequently returned to a golf course.
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Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
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ua103.3.083
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