3 Best Places To See in Irving, TX

“Irving Arts Center is a 10-acre campus of this arts center nestled in the center of Dallas-Fort Worth. The center includes two fully designed theaters, four galleries, conference, lecture, dining, and performance facilities, and a lush sculpture garden. The Irving Arts Center was built to serve a wide variety of cultural and community needs. The center is open 362 days a year, closing only on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day. The facilities attract various leasing clients, including business events, conventions, cultural seminars and workshops, video shoots, wedding ceremonies, and celebrations. Visitors can enjoy 275 events each year in a variety of venues. Irving Arts Center is open seven days a week with a free parking facility.”

“Ruth Paine House Museum is a restored suburban 1960s house and museum where JFK's assassin spent the night before the shooting. The site is a time capsule of the small homes built by the thousands across the nation shortly after WWII. To enhance visitors' feeling of being in the house in 1963, actors play the roles of Ruth and Michael Paine, and Marina and Lee Harvey Oswald. Guests at Ruth Paine's home will also learn about her involvement in local civil and social justice movements in the 1960s. The house is perfectly recreated. The curators have preserved people's lives, using holograms to tell their stories in their own words. Ruth Paine House Museum is available to the public, including individuals, groups, students, adults, and families.”

“Joy & Ralph Ellis Stadium offers a wide range of facilities for various gatherings and functions. The stadium is used for American football and soccer matches, and sometimes for athletics. The stadium has a capacity of 12,500. Initially, it was named Irving Schools Stadium. The stadium provides a spacious and well-equipped setting for hosting sports events, concerts, and other community activities. Joy & Ralph Ellis Stadium is also a venue for mostly outdoor sports or other events and consists of a field or stage, either partly or fully surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event. Joy & Ralph Ellis Stadium has good seating facilities. The scoreboard in the stadium is visible from all the seating. Joy & Ralph Ellis Stadium is mainly used for football matches.”