{"id":5677,"date":"2022-07-02T11:19:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T15:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/espacestudio.ca\/the-iconic-white-palace-has-been-wheeling-west-virginias-go-to-event-venue-for-over-a-century\/"},"modified":"2022-07-02T11:19:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T15:19:53","slug":"the-iconic-white-palace-has-been-wheeling-west-virginias-go-to-event-venue-for-over-a-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/espacestudio.ca\/en\/the-iconic-white-palace-has-been-wheeling-west-virginias-go-to-event-venue-for-over-a-century\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iconic White Palace Has Been Wheeling, West Virginia’s Go-To Event Venue For Over A Century"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the 1880s, a popular entertainment venue known as \u201cThe Casino\u201d was constructed in West Virginia, in what is now Wheeling Park. It was a large, white pavilion made of wood, and it was the perfect West Virginia event venue for plays, operas, and musical shows, hosting as many as twenty thousand people (in Wheeling Park as a whole) in a single day. Such famous entertainers as French titan of the stage Sarah Bernhadt performed here at The Casino, all the way until 1925, when (shortly after being acquired by the city of Wheeling), The Casino burned down. And that was that, right? Gone forever, lost to the pages of history. If that\u2019s what you think\u2026 think again<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Even though the Wheeling Park Casino burned in 1925, part of the pavilion’s structure was still salvageable. In the Roaring Twenties, crews were able to use a portion of the original 1880s-era building to construct a new pavilion at the same location as the old one, right in Wheeling Park.<\/figcaption>
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Known as the Otto Schenk Memorial Pavilion (named for the first chairman of the Wheeling Park Commission), this salvaged building, an open air dance hall, continued to be a popular hub of activity and events.<\/figcaption>
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