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LCDS Performing Arts Take Center Stage With Gardner Theatre
The theater is named in honor of Eugene Herr Gardner Sr., who passed away in 2016 and whose stewardship of Lancaster Country Day’s endowment ensured the school would thrive on a secure financial foundation. By the time you read this, a new era will have begun in the performing arts at Lancaster Country Day School. Gardner Theatre will have 580 seats, an orchestra pit, state-of-the-art lighting and acoustics, and fly space. It will host plays, musicals, graduations, recitals, speakers, and events during which the whole student body will have a place to sit, bringing us truly together under our one roof in a way we previously only dreamed possible.
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The theater is named in honor of Eugene Herr Gardner Sr., who passed away in 2016 and whose stewardship of Lancaster Country Day’s endowment ensured the school would thrive on a secure financial foundation. His wife, Anne, explained exactly why this means so much to her and her family.
“It’s important to us because the school is important to us and has been for generations,” Anne said. “This is a facility that Gene Gardner was enthusiastic about and that he hoped could be part of the LCDS campus. He saw a performing arts space becoming a real asset to the school for which he worked so hard, and to the community of Lancaster, where he spent his whole life and which he loved very much.”
Clockwise from left: The foundation was completed in winter of 2019. The finished theater’s elegant and prominent façade will greet visitors to Country Day from President Avenue.
Construction proceeded briskly, with the steel skeleton of the new space completed in early 2020.
These interior shots present a glimpse of how the completed theater will look, including views from the back row and, in the panoramic shot below, the perspective from the stage.
conceptual renderings of gardner theatre
| Exterior | | Interior |
