Bales Organ Recital Hall

The $1.5 million cathedral-like hall was dedicated in October 1996. It adjoins the Lied Center on the northwest and shares a lobby.

The recital hall, which seats 200, was built with gifts from Dane Bales, a 1941 business alumnus, and Polly Roth Bales, a 1942 music graduate, and from the Hansen Foundation of Logan, Kansas.

It was specially designed by Horst Terrell & Karst Architects of Topeka for its 35-foot organ, a Hellmuth Wolff, opus 40, three-manual instrument built by Wolff & Associés Ltée. of Laval, Quebec. The hall features a 72-foot ceiling and walls 2 feet thick; the stained-glass windows were designed by Peter G. Thompson, then dean of fine arts.