page_title: Fisher Hall (Miami University)
section_title: Naming of Fisher Hall
hierarchical_section_title: Fisher Hall (Miami University) / Naming of Fisher Hall
caption_attribution_description: English: Fisher Hall in the winter of 1970
context_page_description: Fisher Hall was a building at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Originally the Oxford Female College, the building was later used as a sanitarium and was purchased by Miami in 1925. It served as a first-year men's residence hall, Naval training school, and theatre. The building remained in use as a dormitory until 1958, when the upper floors were condemned and the theatre remained the only part of the building still in use. With the construction of Miami's Center for Performing Arts in 1968, the theatre became unused and the building turned into a storage facility. After a push to save the building in the mid-1970s, the hall was razed because the cost of renovating the building was identical to the costs of with new construction. Miami University's hotel, The Marcum, was built in 1982 on the former site of Fisher Hall.
  Fisher Hall was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, but delisted that same year.
context_section_description: Dr. Alfred H. Upham, president of Miami University at the time, named the building after Judge Elam Fisher, a trustee and alumnus of the university. The name Fisher Hall was appropriate because while the building was occupied by Oxford Female College, Elam Fisher was kicked out while courting a young lady.
caption: Fisher Hall 1970s
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