The Chapel and Lovelace Hall, Marion Military Institute were listed on the

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in 1978. They are the two surviving buildings from the 1854-58

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campus. Howard College moved in 1887 to

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and the Colonel James Thomas Murfee stayed behind to open Marion Military Institute. With

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University and college academic buildings in the United States National Register of Historic Places in Perry County, Alabama School buildings completed in 1854 Marion, Alabama {{Alabama-NRHP-stub