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McAdams and Morford Building

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McAdams and Morford Building (3)
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The McAdams and Morford Building in Lexington, Kentucky, also known as the Melodeon Hall, is a 3-story commercial building constructed in 1849. An Italianate cast iron facade was added after 1857. Druggists McAdams & Morford occupied a corner space in the building 1898–1994.The building was home to Lexington's Melodeon Hall, a theater and meeting space with seating for 300 patrons. Robert Jefferson Breckinridge addressed a gathering at the Melodeon in 1861, and his remarks helped to preserve Kentucky as a Union state during the American Civil War, although Kentucky maintained separate Union and Confederate state governments during the war.The University of Kentucky (Transylvania University) Commercial College occupied the building for 35 years under the direction of Wilbur R. Smith. In 1908 the college was incorporated separately from the university as the Wilbur R. Smith Business College.In 2017 a vehicle damaged the building, and repair workers uncovered arches from the cast iron facade that had been hidden by previous remodeling.The McAdams and McFord logo appears on the cover of the 2000 album The Sickness from the nu-metal group, Disturbed.

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McAdams and Morford Building
West Main Street, Lexington Central Business District

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Lexington Financial Center (The Big Blue building)

West Main Street 250
40507 Lexington, Central Business District
Kentucky, United States
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