Turn Verein Hall: A Sound Mind in a Sound Body
The historic Turn Verein Hall was devastated by a fire on Sunday, January 13, 2008. On these pages we document the history of the hall, the German immigrants who built it and its uses over the years. It is a sad loss of an historic building which was used and loved by thousands over its history.
Help us complete the history. If you have memories, stories, photographs please send them to research@lawrencehistory.org and we will add them to these pages.
See a few pictures of Turn Hall and the many people who have assembled there over the years. Do you recognize any of them?
See where Turn Hall is located on Google Map. Turn Hall is in the center of the aerial view. Click on the scale on the left to zoom out and and see where Turn Hall is situated in Lawrence.
See the recent March 2008 article on the Turn Hall in the Northeast Regional Library System (NMRLS) newsletter
See the recent March 21 article on the Turn Hall, Market Street fires and the LHC website in the Eagle Tribune.
For more information on the history of Turn Hall:
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Turn Verein history and photographs
I love all the photographs. They make the organization come alive. It was more than a building lost to fire. Hopefully we'll be able to identify people in the various classes. Keep it coming. This is wonderful stuff!
Turn Verein Hall
I hope to see some great photographs in this "book" of the building in its glory days. These halls were common gathering places for German communities across the country.