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Main Auditorium and later known as Cain Hall.

This was the original Hinds library housed in Main Auditorium. In 1962 when McLendon Library was built, the library moved to its new facilities.

The night of March 7, 1998, during a thunderstorm, Cain Hall burned.

Firemen battled the blaze that lit up the sky for miles.

Another view of the fire, through the trees.

Smoke is shown here over the portico on the north side of Cain Hall.

The fire is still going the next day. The portico had not yet burned.

Here the portico is gone and only three columns remained on the north side.

The fire is still burning on the south portico the next day.

The burned-out south portico of Cain Hall.

Firefighters fighting the fire on the portico.

The fire still burns, the columns remain.

Empty windows.

The missing bricks and the destruction inside can be seen here.

A rendering by Mike Hataway of the new Cain-Cochran Hall that was dedicated on November 3, 2002.

One of the porticos on the new Cain-Cochran Hall.

The new Cain-Cochran Hall.