Key Hall

In the summer of 1907, through the "great liberality" of two Trustees, R.B.F. Key and Charles Christopher Henderson, the College acquired a multi-purpose annex to the east of Old Main.

A three-story brick building, the annex contained rooms for Expression, Art, and Domestic Science on the first floor; 18 rooms for music practice on the second floor; and several bedrooms for girls on the third floor. Heated by steam, the annex was "modern in every respect." The building featured a covered passageway connecting the second and third floors with the second floor of the main building; it was a "splendid addition to Henderson" College.

Since the College had been rechristened Henderson in 1904, the Trustees named the annex Key Music Hall in honor of the other Trustee-donor.

In 1923, the College erected a three-story addition of eleven rooms to Key Hall to make "it a complete and thoroughly equipped conservatory hall". Added to the east end of the structure, the annex, 32 feet by 42 feet, contained four rooms on the first and second floors. Two rooms on the third floor provided meeting places for the two literary societies for the girls—the Ups and the Philos. In the center of each floor was a hall seven feet wide with a stairway from the first to the third floor. The Key Hall Annex cost $10,950, financed by subscriptions and $6,000 borrowed from the E. O. Hamon Memorial Fund, which had been established strictly for scholarship loans. On January 24, 1924, the College held a reception in Key Hall so that the public could tour the new addition. Following the reception, Mme. Cecile de Horvath, pianist, presented a recital in the auditorium as a Lyceum feature.

On June 17, 1964, after the newly constructed McBrien Hall and Russell Fine Arts Center were ready to occupy, the college awarded a contract to Burke's House Wrecking Company for $4,366 to raze both College Hall and Key Hall.