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McCormick
Hall
1887
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HISTORY
Built in 1887, McCormick Hall marked the first building erected on
campus through the generosity of the Cyrus Hall McCormick family.
While the identity of the architect is in doubt, the builder was J.
H. Willis of Greeneville. A wooden hand plane and small level used
by Mr. Willis in construction of McCormick Hall (and later Virginia
Hall) are displayed in the Tusculum College
archives.
McCormick Hall has a unique architectural design. The back half of the building is octagonal in design, and the upper two stories on the back half were left open to house the chapel, complete with its own choir loft and a panoramic view of the mountains. On the west end of the building is a circular bell tower housing the stairwell as well as the bell.
In the late 1960s when a modern chapel was constructed on campus, the small chapel housed in the upper two stories of McCormick was replaced by offices on 2nd and 3rd floors.
A bit of the past is preserved in the Haynes Board room, as along its
wall are built in the original pillars which supported the choir loft
of the old chapel.
 President Henry at work in his McCormick Hall office |
 Tusculum's Business Office |
 The McCormick Belltower |
 McCormick's gardens |
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