The University of Wisconsin Campus - Music Hall

925 Bascom Mall     Built 1878     National Register of Historic Places

• Origionally known as Assembly Hall, built to provide space for the University’s library collections and for large gatherings, lectures and performances.
• It's function as an assembly hall ceased when the Red Gym took over in 1892.
• The University moved the library collections to the New Library/Historical Society Building in 1900
  
• Home of the Music School from 1900 to 1969 when they moved to the Humanities Building
  
• 'On Wisconsin' was introduced here in 1909 by it's authors Purdy and Beck
• Renamed Music Hall in 1910
• Speakers in Assembly Hall included Gov. Robert LaFollette, John F. Kennedy, and Frank Lloyd Wright
• Memorial services for University Presidents John Bascom (1911) and Charles Van Hise (1919)