About the Lunt-Fontanne Program Center

Through decades of collaboration, leadership, and mentoring, Ten Chimneys’ log cabin Studio impacted the course of 20th-century theater and arts. In order to fulfill its mission to extend that tradition and maintain the integrity of the estate, Ten Chimneys Foundation developed the Lunt-Fontanne Program Center to serve as the “Studio for the 21st Century.”

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The Lunt-Fontanne Program Center supports educational and artistic programs, including public tours, play readings, and lectures, permanent exhibitions, theater resource programs, and high school outreach tours.

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In keeping with the Lunts’ love of the natural world, Ten Chimneys’ Program Center was designed to fit unobtrusively into the sloping hills of the land that inspired and rejuvenated the greats of 20th Century theater. The thirty acres surrounding the Program Center remain a haven for lush flora and fauna. This land, in addition to the adjacent thirty-eight acre parcel the Lunts donated to the Town of Genesee as a nature preserve, is open to tour guests and program participants, walking in the footsteps of the Lunts, Katharine Hepburn, Noël Coward, Helen Hayes, and Laurence Olivier – among countless others.

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While creating only a small footprint on the landscape across the road from the historic buildings of Ten Chimneys, the Lunt-Fontanne Program Center includes: a spacious lobby, engaging exhibitions, a large program hall, a museum store, and other gracious amenities. It also provides museum archives for our expanding collection and staff offices to support the Foundation’s ongoing operations.