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Stop 6 of 33 · Burlington audio walking tour

Flynn Center for the Performing Arts

Burlington · Refurbished Art Deco Movie Palace

What you'll hear here: about 90 seconds on Flynn Center for the Performing Arts — how it came to be, who it mattered to, and what to look for while you're standing in front of it.

Burlington's Flynn Center for the Performing Arts makes its home in a refurbished Art Deco movie palace. Here in Burlington, Vermont, you are before an arts venue whose home is a refurbished Art Deco movie palace. Step close and consider what that means: this place carries the name The Flynn and serves as an arts venue in the city of Burlington, Vermont.

The structure you face began life as a movie palace and now, refurbished, houses performing arts. The combination is simple and clear: an arts venue based in a refurbished Art Deco movie palace. As you stand here the place asks you to hold two ideas at once — the Flynn as a local performing-arts home, and the cinema past that shaped the building’s bones.

You’ll feel the steady presence of the Flynn’s identity, repeated in its name, in its purpose as an arts venue, and in its setting inside a refurbished Art Deco movie palace. Let that clarity guide your visit: you are before The Flynn, an arts venue in Burlington, Vermont, based in a refurbished Art Deco movie palace. This building still holds two identities at once: your neighborhood arts venue, and a movie palace's past.

Where it is

Coordinates
44.4754, -73.21305
Area
Burlington
Era
Refurbished Art Deco Movie Palace
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