George Kent Performance Hall

	Former Immaculate Conception Church
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	George Kent Performance Hall, the former Immaculate Conception Church
Location	119 High Street,; Westerly, Rhode Island
Coordinates	41°22′55″N 71°49′32″W / 41.38194°N 71.82556°W
Built	1886
Architect	Patrick Holliday
Architectural style	Gothic
NRHP reference No.	73000007
Added to NRHP	April 24, 1973

The George Kent Performance Hall (known previously as the Immaculate Conception Church and the Westerly Center for the Arts) is a historic building in Westerly, Rhode Island.

Description

The building, a rectangular Carpenter Gothic structure, was built as a church in 1886-89 by Patrick Holliday for Immaculate Conception Parish http://immcon.org/ . the first Roman Catholic parish in Westerly, founded in 1886. The parish is part of the Diocese of Providence and the church was in use by the parish until 1968, when services were moved to a new and larger structure located about 100 yards south of the old building.^[2] The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.^[1] The building served as the Westerly Center from the Arts from the early 1970s until 1991 when it was purchased by the Chorus of Westerly.

In 2005 the building was rededicated as the George Kent Performance Hall. Kent Hall is now owned and operated by the Chorus of Westerly and hosts their symphonic season and programs as well as a variety of other music and arts events. Some private and community activities also take place in the center.

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^ "NRHP nomination for Former Immaculate Conception Church". Rhode Island Preservation. Retrieved 2014-08-09.

External links

Chorus of Westerly website

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.

[NRHP-2] "NRHP nomination for Former Immaculate Conception Church". Rhode Island Preservation. Retrieved 2014-08-09.

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