McAdams and Morford Building, Lexington

The McAdams and Morford Building, also known as the Melodeon Hall, is a 3-story commercial building constructed in 1849. An Italianate cast iron facade was added after 1857. Druggists McAdams & Morford occupied a corner space in the building 1898–1994.

The building was home to Lexington's Melodeon Hall, a theater and meeting space with seating for 300 patrons. Robert Jefferson Breckinridge addressed a gathering at the Melodeon in 1861, and his remarks helped to preserve Kentucky as a Union state during the American Civil War, although Kentucky maintained separate Union and Confederate state governments during the war.

The Commercial College of the University of Kentucky (which back then was known as Transylvania University) occupied the building for 35 years. In 1908 the college was incorporated separately from the university as the Wilbur R. Smith Business College.

The McAdams and Morford building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.