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Recklein Auditorium Gets Facelift in July, 2017
Recklein Auditorium gets a new look in July, 2017
The City of Cuba invited Viva Cuba, Cuba’s community beautification group, to submit ideas on completing the exterior renovation of Recklein Auditorium. A committee formed, and after three months of exchanging ideas, committee members submitted their vision to the city council.
The Plan
The group wanted to salute the history of the 1922 Recklein Auditorium, originally built as a high school auditorium.
Viva Cuba members contacted Missouri artist Ray Harvey. Harvey created a plan utilizing a trompe l’oeil look. Trompe l’oeil gives the illusion of the eye perceiving painted detail as a three-dimensional object. Workers covered the original windows at some point. The painting restores them.
THE MURALS OF CUBA, MISSOURI
WHAT IS VIVA CUBA?
In 1984, Viva Cuba, Inc. organized with the goal of beautifying Cuba to attract new industries and jobs. Many groups and individuals worked together in the early days to landscape Highway 19 and make it a more attractive entrance to Cuba.
In 1987, Viva Cuba became the first Adopt-A-Highway site in the state Over the years, planting continued, cleanup projects went forward, banners took their places in the community, and in the ’90s the Viva Cuba Garden, which has been enhanced, became a part of the four-way Hwy. 19 and Route 66 intersection. These efforts continue with maintenance and further improvements.
In 2001, Viva Cuba implemented a major project of commissioning 12 outdoor murals by Cuba’s 150th anniversary in 2007. Organizations and individuals supported Viva Cuba’s efforts and helped the organization reach its goal. Today Viva Cuba maintains 14 murals and Cuba is known as “Route 66 Mural City”. Since 2012, Cuba has been a Tree City USA Community.
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