The Rise of Art Hall

Originally Beloit housed its Art Collections on the second floor of Pearsons Hall. 

The original art collection was housed in the Pearsons Hall of Science on the second floor, before the greek casts were acquired. With the space of about a year, the collections grew large enough to warrant a move, to an unused building that was previously used as a Chapel and South College.

Joseph Emerson after acquiring the casts, waiting for them to be placed in Art Hall.

The Fisher Collection was the largest collections in the new Art hall. Though an anthropology museum was being started, the casts stayed in Art Hall and were studied for their artistic attributes. The statues stood in this Art Hall until 1930, when the new Theodore Lyman Wright Museum of Art was created.