Speech presented by Katharine McAfee Parker to the students of Hanover College recounting her memories of the 1941 campus fire in Classic Hall., The groundbreaking for Old Classic Hall began in the spring of 1853. The...
Photograph of the front of Old Classic Hall. Construction began in 1853 and completed in 1857. The Board of Trustees renamed it in 1900. It burned in a fire on December 19th, 1941.