The original auditorium walls remained as the outer shell of the theatre. Designed to complement the 1908 auditorium and the modern Boettcher Concert Hall and Bonfils Theatres, the Buell featured an open glass front that helps to integrate it into the total complex. The plan by Beyer Blinder Belle of New York City called for the gutting of the Auditorium Arena to build a proscenium theatre fronting the galleria. The Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation provided the lead naming-rights gift of $3 million to honor the prominent Denver architect and developer who died in 1990, a year before the new theatre opened. Finally, in 1984, Denver Mayor Federico Peña and Colorado Governor Roy Romer spearheaded a campaign to raise $8 million to supplement $27.5 million in city bonds to build a new venue. Plans for a new, larger theatre simmered for years. CELEBRATING A QUARTER CENTURY OF ELEGANCE IN DENVER'S CULTURAL HISTORYĪs Denver Center Attractions, part of the DCPA since 1979, courted ever-larger and more elaborate Broadway productions, shows increasingly had trouble squeezing into the Auditorium Theatre.
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