Norris Hospital: The Legacy of MacMurray College

This is the legacy of MacMurray College. 

The MacMurray Foundation now stores the trophies and treasures of MacMurray College in the Jacksonville Area Museum, symbols of their achievements, acknowledgements of the generous donors that funded the college, notes regarding the ways their graduates went out and changed the world.

The campus is slowly being reintegrated into the surrounding neighborhood, their buildings being repurposed as affordable housing, a pilates studio, recreation centers, a church, a clinic, and the Morgan County Health Department. On the north end of the campus stands a monument to decisions made by the administration beginning long before MacMurray’s abrubt closure in 2020. 

Norris was home to the MacMurray Nursing Department, art studios, and various student life organizations. In the middle of the week, in the middle of the fall 2010 semester, Norris Hospital was also abruptly closed and vacated due to mold and asbestos.  This was the day that MacMurray walked away from Norris Hospital, a property they had owned since 1983. 

During the auction of the campus real estate an out of town investor, a friend of a board member, purchased Norris Hospital as a favor, sight unseen. 

Norris Hospital is not the legacy of the teachers and students of MacMurray College, but it is the legacy of The MacMurray Foundation, the administrators, and the board that led to the college's ultimate closure. Every broken window is a choice that was made in Katy Hall to willfully look the other way. It is the tangible evidence of MacMurray failing the Department of Education’s financial responsibility test in 2011, 2012, and 2013, leading up to probation from their accrediting body, the Higher Learning Commission, for deferred maintenance of the campus.

After you visit the Jacksonville Museum and view MacMurray Hall, take a moment and walk half a block east on State Street and see the legacy The MacMurray Foundation left for the community after they took their valuables to the museum.

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