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Creation Date
5-23-2008
Historic District
Mars Hill College Historic District
Description
Mars Hill College Montague Hall, NC. Mars Hill College was founded as the French Broad Baptist Institute in Madison County in 1856.
Approximately twenty buildings make this the largest educational historic district in the state. All of these building are on the quad except two. Of these, Montague is the oldest, built in 1856.
Mars Hill College has received a $50,000 grant from the Janirve Foundation toward the restoration and renovation of its Rural Life Museum, housed in historic Montague Hall on the campus.
Mars Hill College Historic District - Contributing Building - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #06000865
Latitude, Longitude
35.826559,-82.550075
Recommended Citation
Taylor, George Lansing Jr., "Mars Hill College Montague Hall, NC" (2008). George Lansing Taylor Collection Main Gallery. 1016.
https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/historical_architecture_main/1016
