Eumenean Hall
Dates: Built in 1849 and dedicated in November 1849. Restored in 1956. Placed on National Historic Register in 1972. Named Charlotte Mecklenburg Historic Site in 1976.
Quote: Specifications and Contract for building a Society Hall at Davidson College Mecklenburg County N.C. House to be fifty seven feet long and thirty two wide; lower story two feet high, upper story 14 ft high, lower story with a passage eight feet wide and two rooms on one side, on the other but one. The partitions to be of brick 9 inches thick and laid in good cement: the upper story to be all in one room, forty five feet long by thirty, in the clear with a portico and stair was 10 feet by 32 feet according to draft.
- Copy of manuscript from papers of Professor John L. Douglas. Eumenean Society Davidsoniana file. Davidson College Archives.
Named for: Eumenean Literary Society. The Society was formed on April 14, 1837.
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