CMA Trunk Room fire, 1918
Posted in Buildings, Buildings and Campus, Chautauqua, Culver Academies, Events, Fires on Aug 19th, 2012
Culver Military Academy’s Trunk Room began its life as theTabernacle for the chautauqua hotel Henry Harrison Culver built at the site of today’s Main Barracks, for the 1889 chautauqua season (famous evangelist T. Dewitt Talmage spoke there). It became the Culver Military Academy gymnasium when the school was started in 1894, and the school’s dining […]
