As a result, concert attendance started to decline, and finally, in June of 1941, it was sold for the humiliating price of $305.24. Later, when it was once again sold, it was then bought again to be made into a summer theater association in the summer of 1947, but when it was just about to open, the great fire of 1947 ravaged itself across the land and destroyed the Building of Arts. The building was long since doomed so its destruction was not greatly mourned.
