The Macon City Auditorium is an impressive building with a huge green copper dome and rows of tall limestone columns circling three sides-just look for the grand, temple-like structure across from City Hall.
Standing here, you're at the foot of Macon's grand stage-a place that's been dazzling crowds since 1925 with its towering Doric columns and an eye-catching copper dome so big that locals claim it’s the largest in the world. Designed by a New Yorker, Egerton Swartwout, the auditorium has hosted everything from concerts to community meetings-imagine the buzz on a night when Otis Redding’s funeral filled these halls, or when Oprah transformed the Great Hall into her very own stage for “Oprah’s Favorite Things.” Inside, 2,688 seats fill the 14,000-square-foot Great Hall, where people have watched history come to life-literally, thanks to a mural above the stage that swirls together stories of conquistadors and early Macon pioneers, painted by Don Carlos Dubois and Wilbur Kurtz. Despite newer neighbors across the river-like the Macon Coliseum-this grand old building thrives, still affectionately known simply as “the Auditorium.” If you hear whispers of the Celtic Women’s songs or echoes from one of its legendary events, don’t be surprised-this place is practically humming with stories.
