FAYETTEVILLE -- Officials held a ground breaking ceremony today for restoration work on the University of Arkansas Fine Arts Center.
Part of a grant from the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation will go toward renovating the Fine Arts Center, built in 1951, at an estimated cost of $38 million .
The structure was designed by Edward Durrell Stone, a Fayetteville native whose work included designing the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Both the building and landscaping are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
New York-based Deborah Berke Partners, with Fayetteville-based Miller Boskus Lack, are working on the renovation, which the university has described as involving a restoration of the building's lobby to serve as a "pre-event space" for the building's concert hall and theater.