Editing Grand Ole Opry (section)

===Grand Ole Opry House===
{{For-multi|the venue named Grand Ole Opry House from 1943 to 1974|Ryman Auditorium|the 1929 Disney short film|The Opry House{{!}}''The Opry House''}}
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| name = Grand Ole Opry House 
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| image = File:Grand Ole Opry House 2022a.jpg
| caption = The Grand Ole Opry House in 2022
| location = 600 Opry Mills Dr, [[Nashville, Tennessee]] 37214<ref name="NRHP">{{cite web|url=http://tn.gov/environment/history/docs/national-register_grand-ole-opry.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Grand Ole Opry House|access-date=March 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402195728/http://tn.gov/environment/history/docs/national-register_grand-ole-opry.pdf|archive-date=April 2, 2015|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
| locmapin = Tennessee#USA
| built = 1972-74<ref name="NRHP"/>
| restored = 2010 (flood damage remediation)
| architect = [[Welton Becket]] & Associates; Pierre Cabrol<ref name="NRHP"/>
| architecture = Modern/Brutalist<ref name="NRHP"/>
| added = January 27, 2015
| area = 4 acres (approx.)<ref name="NRHP"/>
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[[File:Grand Ole Opry House 2022e.png|thumb|Interior in 2022]]
Ryman Auditorium was home to the Opry until 1974. By the late 1960s, National Life & Accident desired a new, larger, more modern home for the long-running radio show. Already 51 years old at the time the Opry moved there, the Ryman was beginning to suffer from disrepair as the downtown neighborhood around it fell victim to increasing [[urban decay]]. Despite these shortcomings, the show's popularity continued to increase, and its weekly crowds were outgrowing the 2,362-seat venue. The Opry's operators wanted to build a new air-conditioned theater, with greater seating capacity, ample parking, and the ability to serve as a television production facility. Their ideal location would be in a less urbanized part of town to provide visitors with a "safer, more controlled, and more enjoyable experience".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vMZPXcMxD28C&pg=PT238|title=The Grand Ole Opry: The Making of an American Icon - Colin Escott - Google Boeken|isbn=9781599952482|access-date=August 9, 2012|last1=Escott|first1=Colin|author-link=Colin Escott|date=February 28, 2009|publisher=Center Street }}</ref>

National Life & Accident purchased farmland owned by a local sausage manufacturer (Rudy's Farm) in the Pennington Bend area of Nashville, nine miles east of downtown and adjacent to the newly constructed [[Tennessee State Route 155|Briley Parkway]]. The new Opry venue was the centerpiece of a grand entertainment complex at that location, which later included [[Opryland USA]] Theme Park and [[Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center|Opryland Hotel]]. The theme park opened to the public on June 30, 1972,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timelines.home.insightbb.com/ol_years.htm|title=Theme Park Timelines|publisher=Timelines.home.insightbb.com|access-date=August 9, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120904124044/http://timelines.home.insightbb.com/ol_years.htm|archive-date=September 4, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref> well ahead of the 4,000-seat Opry House, which debuted nearly two years later, on Saturday, March 16, 1974. The last show of the Grand Ole Opry at the Ryman Auditorium was held on March 15, 1974.

Opening night was attended by sitting U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]], who played a few songs on the piano.<ref>Hurst, Jack ''Nashville's Grand Ole Opry'' (New York: H.N. Abrams, 1975)</ref> To carry on the tradition of the show's run at the Ryman, a six-foot circle of oak was cut from the corner of the Ryman's stage and inlaid into center stage at the new venue.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Smith|first1=Loran|title=A visit to the Grand Ole Opry brings precious memories|url=http://www.news-reporter.com/news/2013-01-24/Opinions/A_visit_to_the_Grand_Ole_Opry_brings_precious_memo.html?print=1|access-date=November 29, 2014|agency=The News-Reporter|date=January 24, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205045214/http://www.news-reporter.com/news/2013-01-24/Opinions/A_visit_to_the_Grand_Ole_Opry_brings_precious_memo.html?print=1|archive-date=December 5, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> Artists on stage usually stood on the circle as they performed, and most modern performers still follow this tradition.

The theme park was closed and demolished following the 1997 season, but the Grand Ole Opry House remains in use. The immediate area around it was left intact, even throughout the construction of [[Opry Mills]], which opened in May 2000.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/109026681|title=Mall has grand opening plans|work=Tennessean|date=May 9, 2000}}</ref> The outside was decorated with the commemorative plaques of country music Grammy winners, formerly of Opryland's [[StarWalk]], until the display was retired, reconfigured, and moved downtown to become the [[Music City Walk of Fame]] in 2006.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mayor |first=Alan |year=2014 |title=The Nashville Family Album: A Country Music Scrapbook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1jGlBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA77 |location=New York |publisher=St. Martin's Press |page=77 |isbn=978-1466885677 }}</ref>

The ''Grand Ole Opry'' continues to be performed every Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, and occasionally Wednesday and Sunday at the Grand Ole Opry House. The site was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] on January 27, 2015.<ref>Eleanor Kennedy, "[http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/blog/health-care/2015/02/nashvilles-newest-historic-place-the-grand-ole.html Nashville's newest historic place: The Grand Ole Opry House]", ''Nashville Business Journal'', February 26, 2015.</ref><ref>Todd Barnes, [Grand Ole Opry House added to National Register], ''The Tennessean'', February 27, 2015.</ref>

The Grand Ole Opry House was also the home of the [[Country Music Association Awards]] from 1974 to 2004, and hosted three weeks of tapings for the long-running game show ''[[Wheel of Fortune (American game show)|Wheel of Fortune]]'' in 2003.  Three weeks are country music stars week Nashville week  and sweethearts weeksThe venue has also been the site of the [[GMA Dove Awards]] on multiple occasions.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2019/10/14/gma-dove-awards-what-expect-during-50th-anniversary-show/3774880002/|title=GMA Dove Awards|work=Tennessean|date=October 14, 2019}}</ref>

On December 21, 2018, the backstage band room was officially named the Jimmy Capps Music Room in honor of Capps's 60th anniversary on the ''Opry''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nashville.com/wills-invited-to-join-the-opry-capps-celebrates-60/|title=Wills Invited To Join The Opry, Capps Celebrates 60|date=December 23, 2018|website=Nashville.com|language=en-US|access-date=March 3, 2019}}</ref>