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Kennedy Center Opens as Washington Cultural Hope Looms
The six story Kennedy Center on the Potomac showcases an opera house concert hall theater and galleries with a parking garage below. Slated to open in September 1971 with Bernstein creating a new musical, the center aims to anchor Washington's arts scene akin to New Yorks Lincoln Center. It sits opposite Roosevelt Island bird sanctuary and arose from Eisenhower to Johnson funding efforts. The project cost rose from 46.4 million in 1964 to 66.2 million by January.
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