Downtown New Albany, Indiana. On the corner of 1st & West Main Streets.
Many of our guests here at Aunt Artie's Antique Mall have been curious about the history of the building. We have taken time to collect some background information for your enjoyment, not to mention it is a history lesson.The City of New Albany was founded by the Scribner Brothers in the year of 1813. Thirty-eight years later, in 1851, Mr. John K. Woodward saw the need for a public hall... a place for amusement.The ?New Albany Daily Ledger? of November 1852, page 3, column 1 reads: "One of the greatest wants of our city has been spacious and commodious hall for concerts. This want will soon be supplied. Mr. Woodward's splendid hall at the corner of Main and lower First Street will be completed in a short time, when New Albany will be able to boast of one of the best halls in the West. With a good room for concerts and other amusements and proper officers to enforce good order and decorum (a thing almost impossible in the building now used for such purposes) we shall expect to see a lively time in the concert line this winter.