Eumenean Hall, Davidson College

{{short description|Historic school building in North Carolina, US}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

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| name = Eumenean Hall, Davidson College

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| image = Eumenean Hall Exterior.jpg

| caption = Eumenean Hall, October 2011

| location = Davidson College campus, Davidson, North Carolina

| coordinates = {{coord|35|30|0|N|80|50|51|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = North Carolina#USA

| built = {{Start date|1849}}

| architect = Dinkins, Lewis; Alexander, Daniel

| architecture = Greek Revival

| added = April 13, 1972

| area = {{convert|0.5|acre}}

| refnum = 72000974{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

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Eumenean Hall, Davidson College is a historic school building located on the campus of Davidson College at Davidson, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was built in 1849, to serve as the meeting place of the Eumenean Society, a literary and debating society.{{Cite web |title=Literary Societies |url=https://digitalprojects.davidson.edu/omeka/s/college-archives-davidson-encyclopedia/page/literary-societies |access-date=2024-10-06 |website=Davidson Encyclopedia |language=en-US |via=Davidson College Archives, Special Collections & Community}}

Eumenean Hall is a two-story, temple-form brick structure three bays wide and three bays long in the Greek Revival style. The front facade features a tetrastyle Doric order pedimented portico supported by four massive stuccoed brick columns. The building faces Philanthropic Hall across the original quadrangle of Davidson College.{{Cite web | author =John B. Wells, III | title =Eumenean Hall, Davidson College| work = National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory | date =December 1971| url = https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/MK0008.pdf | format = pdf | publisher = North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office | accessdate = 2015-02-01}}

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.