Cape Fear Community College recently received the largest donation in the college’s history, prompting its Humanities and Fine Arts Center’s name to be changed. 

CFCC’s Humanities and Fine Arts Center opened in downtown Wilmington in October 2015. 

Allan and Laura Wilson donated $1.5 million to the college for the center’s renaming. The center will now be known as the Allan and Laura Wilson Humanities and Fine Arts Center, according to a news release.

The Wilsons have been charitable supporters of CFCC for over 15 years. In 1999 the couple also established an endowed scholarship for second-year students from Brunswick, New Hanover and Pender counties, according to the release.

The center includes a main performance hall, which seats 1,559 people, as well as three floors of studios, laboratories and classrooms. The educational wing of the building provides modern instructional spaces and houses CFCC’s Humanities and Fine Arts Department.

“The Wilson’s generous donation to the Cape Fear Community College Humanities and Fine Arts Center will make an enormous impact,” CFCC trustees chairman William Turner said in the release. “Nearly every curriculum student at CFCC takes a class in the Center, and tens of thousands of community members have already attended sell-out performances at the facility. With this gift we can continue to offer world-class education and entertainment opportunities for years to come.”