CNU's Yoder Barn [TRR's Historic Venue on the Pennisula]
CNU's Yoder Barn Theatre is a well-known landmark on the Peninsula of Virginia. The barn was built in 1935 by the Yoder family following a fire that destroyed their original barn built in 1899. The Yoders ran a dairy farm until 1969 when they closed their processing plant operation to raise beef cattle and farm crops. Upon the sale of the main farm land in 1995, the family donated property they owned a quarter of a mile away to a community theatre project on which the current Yoder barn was moved to serve as the Theatre’s structure.
In the spring of 2007, this landmark was given to Christopher Newport University by the Yoder family and the Yoder Preservation Trust, Inc. The official donation was presented to CNU's President Paul Trible, marking the third chapter for the barn that housed dairy cows from 1935 to 1969, later a community theatre and now it is home to Tidewater Regional Repertory Theatre.
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