ACDA Sells Lawton Building

The American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) has sold its building and former National Headquarters in Lawton, Oklahoma, to the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.

After moving to its new National Headquarters in Oklahoma City in 2004, the American Choral Directors Association used its former building located in Lawton, Oklahoma, as the home for its national library and archives. The Lawton, OK, location had been the home of the national choral organization since 1978. Prior to 1978, the ACDA was based in Tampa, Florida. The new National Headquarters building for ACDA is located in Oklahoma City’s downtown arts district. The Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services in Lawton adjoins the former ACDA property.
In a statement released by Tim Sharp, Executive Director of the American Choral Directors Association, Sharp said “we are pleased that the property and the location will continue to be a resource in the service of the greater good.” 

 

Speaking to the 25 year legacy of American Choral Directors Association’s center of operation in Lawton, Sharp continues, “It will give our association’s membership great satisfaction to know we are selling our Lawton property to such a worthy and important non-profit entity as the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. They have been good neighbors to ACDA throughout the years, and we know they will continue to contribute to the betterment of Lawton and to society. We share in their sense of mission.”

The American Choral Directors Association’s National Headquarters in Oklahoma City includes the McMahon International Choral Music Museum which exhibits significant choral artifacts, while the ACDA archive, also relocated from Lawton, serves as a research destination for choral scholars around the world.