Chapel and Lovelace Hall, Marion Military Institute | |
Coordinates: | 32.6236°N -87.3219°W |
Built: | 1854 |
Added: | September 13, 1978 |
Area: | 1.6acres |
Refnum: | 78000508 |
The Chapel and Lovelace Hall, Marion Military Institute were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
They are the two surviving buildings from the 1854-58 Howard College campus. Howard College moved in 1887 to Birmingham, Alabama and the Colonel James Thomas Murfee stayed behind to open Marion Military Institute.[1] During the Civil War, the Chapel and Lovelace Hall, both built in 1857, were used as Breckinridge Military Hospital, treating both Union and Confederate soldiers.[2]