Carnegie Hall of Moores Hill College, Academic building in Moores Hill, Indiana.
Carnegie Hall of Moores Hill College is a 2+1⁄2-story brick building on a raised limestone-faced basement, built in 1907 in a "T" plan with Collegiate Gothic and Jacobethan Revival elements. A central bell tower with a pyramidal roof rises between projecting wings, and the facade has a steeply pitched gable roof, parapeted gables, terra cotta trim and pointed arch openings.
The building was constructed in 1907 following an Andrew Carnegie donation and served as the main facility of Moores Hill College until 1917. It later continued operating as a public school for the community.
The building's name honours Andrew Carnegie, whose $18,750 donation helped fund its 1907 construction. A room on the third floor was set aside for Allen Lodge No. 165, the town's Masonic lodge, which met there from January 1856 onward for 59 years in the earlier Moore Hall. A Masonic historical marker was placed on that site in 1974.
Carnegie Hall stands in Moores Hill, Indiana, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. It has not operated as a school since 1987, so it is not an active school facility. The building is a private property with no public tours; view the brick facade, bell tower and pointed arch openings from the street.
The Masonic link predates Carnegie Hall: Allen Lodge No. 165 met from January 1856 in a third-floor room of the earlier Moore Hall, which burned in 1915. A Masonic historical marker was placed on that site in 1974, in the grassy lot north of the 1907 building.
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