McCalla School

ID: 2035 ~ Source: Photo Courtesy of Indiana University Libraries' Archives of Traditional Music, Hoagy Carmichael Collections 1920-1981 ~ Date: 1910

This file appears in: Hoagy Carmichael Growing Up in Bloomington

Hoagy attended McCalla Elementary school which was located on Indiana Avenue on the edge of the IU Campus. The school was built in 1907 and named after Margaret Hemphill McCalla, an early teacher in Bloomington and Indiana's first female school superintendent. The building now houses the sculpture facility for IU's School of Fine Arts.

This file appears in: Hoagy Carmichael Growing Up in Bloomington

Hoagy Carmichael Growing Up in Bloomington

By Monroe County History Center

In his unpublished memoir Jazzbanders, Hoagy said of his hometown, “Bloomington offered everything. Creeks, ponds, rabbits, circuses and wide open spaces. I could cross a dusty street here in my bare feet without the aid of a traffic cop.” The…