Discover 11 hidden attractions, cool sights, and unusual things to do in Irving (United States). Don't miss out on these must-see attractions: Toyota Music Factory, Irving Arts Center, and National Scouting Museum. Also, be sure to include Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas in your itinerary.
Below, you can find the list of the most amazing places you should visit in Irving (Texas).
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Toyota Music Factory
The Toyota Music Factory is an entertainment complex located in the Las Colinas neighborhood of Irving, Texas.
Developed by the ARK Group, City of Irving and designed by architecture firm Gensler, for roughly $US175 million, the live music venue holds more than 8,000 spectators. The development is slated to include 300,000 square feet of retail and restaurants, 100,000 square feet concert hall and amphitheater with 8,000 capacity, an outdoor event plaza and 100,000 square feet of office.[1]
Address: 300 West Las Colinas Boulevard, Irving (Las Colinas)
Irving Arts Center
Theater in Irving, Texas. The Irving Arts Center, located in Irving, Texas, is a 10-acre art center that caters to all ages within the community. The center contains over 91,500 square feet of performing and visual arts space which includes a 3,800 square-foot Main Gallery. The Main Gallery host over 20 exhibits throughout the year. In 2007, the art center became an affiliate with the Smithsonian Institution, which makes the Irving Arts Center one out of 160 Smithsonian Affiliates nationwide.
The 10-acre center features theaters, classrooms, reception halls, a sculpture garden and other areas for the community.
Irving Arts Center features four galleries that are free and open to the public. They host a variety of artwork from local and regional artists, along with traveling shows from the Smithsonian Museum and other affiliates around the country.[2]
Address: 3333 N MacArthur Blvd Ste 300, 75062-4497 Irving
National Scouting Museum
Museum in Colfax County, New Mexico. The National Scouting Museum is the official museum of the Boy Scouts of America.[3]
Address: 1329 W Walnut Hill Ln, 75038-3027 Irving (Las Colinas)
Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas
Convention center in Irving, Texas. The Irving Convention Center is a 275,000 sq ft facility on a 40 acres tract in Las Colinas Urban Center in Irving, Texas. Opened in January 2011, the convention center and the adjoining mixed use entertainment district are bordered on the west by Highway 114, on the east by Las Colinas Boulevard, on the north by Spur 348/Northwest Highway, and to the south by Fuller Drive. The building is recognized for its unique architecture and vertical design.[4]
Address: 500 Las Colinas Blvd W, 75039-3717 Irving (Las Colinas)
Mustangs of Las Colinas
Sculpture created in 1984. Mustangs of Las Colinas is a bronze sculpture by Robert Glen that decorates Williams Square in Las Colinas in Irving, Texas. It portrays a group of nine wild mustangs at 1.5 times life size running through a watercourse. Fountains give the effect of water splashed by the animals' hooves. The work was commissioned in 1976 and installed in 1984.
The Mustangs of Las Colinas Museum is located adjacent to the sculpture, in the east building of The Towers at Williams Square. The museum has exhibits and a film about the work's creation as well as additional sculptures by Robert Glen.
Williams Square is accessible from the DART Orange Line’s stops at Las Colinas Urban Center station and Irving Convention Center station.[5]
Ruth Paine Home
The Ruth Paine Home at 2515 W. 5th Street in Irving, Texas, United States, is the location where Lee Harvey Oswald spent the night before he assassinated United States President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 at Dealey Plaza. It was from the house's garage that he removed the rifle he used for the assassination, which he had previously concealed there.
The house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 16, 2014.[6]
Address: 801 W Irving Blvd, 75060-2845 Irving
Irving-Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce
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Islamic Center of Irving
Mosque in Irving, Texas. The Islamic Center of Irving is a mosque and Islamic community center established and registered as a non-profit 501 organization in 1991 in Irving, Texas, USA.[7]
Address: 2555 Esters Rd, 75062-5009 Irving
Our Lady of Dallas Abbey
Monastery. The Abbey of Our Lady of Dallas is an American monastery of Cistercian monks of the Common Observance—as distinct from the Trappists, who claim a Strict Observance—which was founded in 1955 in Irving, Texas. The monks of the abbey operate Cistercian Preparatory School for boys. As of 2018, it is currently the only Cistercian monastery for monks of the Ancient or Common Observance left in North America with the Canadian Abbey of Our Lady of Nazareth in Rougemont, Quebec.[8]
Chateau Theater
Theater in Montreal, Quebec. The Chateau Theater opened in 1964 as part of a chain of premium, dollar, and drive-in theaters that stretched across North Texas and Oklahoma, owned and operated by entrepreneur, cameo star of 1980s slasher film Honeymoon Horror and former Golden Gloves boxer Jerry Meagher.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Meagher's theaters suffered setbacks and closures until the Chateau was the last of his franchise: a three-screen dollar theater operating in the Plymouth Park strip mall in Irving, Texas.
Threatened by waning attendance, particularly following the opening of the high budget Starplex Cinemas just blocks away from the Chateau's location, the theater eventually sold to former Nortel Networks engineer Jaipal Reddy, who rebranded it as the Everest Theater (and later FunAsia) and maintained a dedicated Bollywood film lineup.
Though little information or artifacts remain on any of Meagher's theaters, a small scrap from the chain's late November, 1976 newspaper advertisement can be seen in Errol Morris's film The Thin Blue Line, the events of which take place in part at Meagher's long since demolished 183 Drive In.
As of November 2020, the Chateau Theater has been demolished.[9]
Las Colinas Vision Center
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Address: 7457 Las Colinas Blvd Ste 100, Irving (Las Colinas)