Carnegie Hall - Lewisburg, WV
by Susan Rissi Tregoning
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Carnegie Hall - Lewisburg, WV
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Susan Rissi Tregoning
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The Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg, West Virginia, is one of only seven Carnegie performance halls still in continuous use in the United States. The most famous is in New York City.
This Carnegie Hall was constructed in the Georgian Revival architectural style in 1902 for the Lewisburg Female Institute. A women’s only four-year institution, teaching two years of high school and two years of college, heavily emphasizing the arts. The Institute went by many names before closing its doors in 1972 as Greenbrier College. That was the last time Carnegie Hall was used as classroom space.
In the early 1980s, after rumors that the building would be condemned and demolished, several Lewisburg residents purchased the building founding Carnegie Hall, Inc in 1983. Using the hall to renew interest in culture and history in the region, it reopened for its first season in 1990. After it was damaged in a Christmas Eve fire in 1996, the building underwent a massive year-long renovation restoring it to the beauty you see today.
Copyright 2023 Susan Rissi Tregoning
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March 21st, 2023
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