Chattanooga Fitness Center
- Also Known As: Warner Park Fieldhouse
- Address: 1254 E 3rd St
- Vicinity: Warner Park
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1952/10/22 | The city accepts the offer a building to be built for a Graham revival. "The city is wholeheartedly for the tabernacle and will co-operate in every way. We think it will be a fine thing for the Billy Graham meeting and for other meetings." Mayor R Olgiati | |||||
| 1952/10/27 | A fire destroys the grandstand at the harness racetrack at Warner Park. Site of the County Fair, the city relocates quonset huts, a Ferris wheel and the train and caterpillar rides. The city also removes 9 houses, a store and a church. | |||||
| 1953/01/05 | The John Martin Company is well into erection of the Warner Park Field House. Designed by architect was William Martin, Mose and Garrison Siskin supply the structural steel. | |||||
| 1953/03/14 | Music director Cliff Barrows and singer George B Shea rehearse at the Field House with the 1,000 strong community choir. A total of 587 ushers also rehearse their roles and child care workers receive training. | |||||
| 1953/03/15 | Billy Graham | Vocation | As Graham readies for his 3 pm service, he notices a section of seating has been designated as "colored", removes the ropes from the area and tells the ushers to let the people sit where they wish. Graham preaches to a crowd of 15,000 from Habakkuk 3:2. | |||
| 1953/03/15 | ABC Radio and WDEF broadcast the Chattanooga revival via direct-wire to Chicago on Reverand Graham's "Hour of Decision". | |||||
| 1953/04/12 | Billy Graham | Vocation | Rev Graham holds meetings in the fieldhouse each evening at 7:30pm, with Sunday services at 3 pm. Planned to end on April 3rd, the revival is extended through April 12 due to popular demand. About 300,000 people attended the revival. |
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| Sight Category | Building |
| Criteria | Historic Event |
| Civil rights | Racial Segregation |
| Area of Significance | Religion |
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