Address: 43 Partition Street
Saugerties, NY 12477
Phone: 845-246-2321 x1
Email: pmelville@villageofsaugerties.org
Photo at right: basketball at Donlon Auditorium.
History
From the press release announcing the dedication of Saugerties' Municipal Building on Partition Street:
"Of brick construction, two and one half stories high and 87 by 100 feet, the new building is already the home of the Saugerties Fire and Police Departments, Water and Public Works departments, village clerk, and treasurer, Village Board, volunteer firemen's quarters. On the second floor is an auditorium with accommodations for 1,000 persons. Hard surface parking areas surround the building."
The 2nd-floor auditorium with accommodations for 1,000 persons was renamed the Captain Roger H. C. Donlon Auditorium on December 28th, 1964. The late Captain Donlon, a Saugerties native son, was the first Vietnam War Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. You can find a brief write-up about Roger on this page.
Reservations
Today, it is used for many basketball sporting events and the occasional pickleball instruction event. Donlon Auditorium can be reserved for use by contacting the Village Clerk. Rental is $25 per hour.
Contact Village Clerk Peggy Melville (845-246-2321 ext. 1 or pmelville@villageofsaugerties.org) for further information about reserving Donlon Auditorium.
For the rules of conduct for anyone using Donlon Auditorium click DONLON AUDITORIUM RULES.
Images
Pickleball at Donlon Auditorium
In the photo above (circa 1943, photographer unknown), some of the participants on the stage have been identified. (If you see any mistakes, please let me know.) In the row at the bottom of the stage, facing the photographer, from left to right, are: Willet Overbaugh, David Hildebrandt, Shirley Beers, Arthur Simmons, Walter Freeze, Clyde Miller, Harry Simmons, William Smith, Donald Bowra and John Burns (face partially cropped). In the row on the stage, from left to right, are Father Harty, Henry Vork, Christy Huberts, Orville Snyder, John C. Sauer, Frank S. Tongue (face partially hidden by lecturn), L. S. Herzog (speaker), Joseph L. Keenan, William Doyle and Carl Mehlig. The final 5 gentlemen on the right were not identified.
Crowd outside the Village Municipal Building. Photographer unknown. Circa 1943.