Tillman Hall, originally known as Main Building, is a historic academic building located on the campus of

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, United States. It was built in 1894, and is a three-story, red brick building in the

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style. The building includes a basement and attic, has a combination gabled and hipped roof configuration, projecting bay windows, and features a conical-roofed

clock tower Clock towers are a specific type of structure that house a turret clock and have one or more clock faces on the upper exterior walls. Many clock towers are freestanding structures but they can also adjoin or be located on top of another building ...

with open belfry. In 1962, Main Building was renamed Tillman Hall for governor, Democratic U.S. Senator, and avowed

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. Tillman Hall's Auditorium has hosted concerts by

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in 1970,

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in 1997, Florida's metal band

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in 2005, Celtic rock band Seven Nations in 2005, Recycled Percussion in 2007 and 2003, and pop folk pianist

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in 2008. The 2008 direct-to-video horror film ''

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'' was filmed outside of and inside Tillman Hall. The ending of the 1999 horror film '' Carrie 2'' was filmed at Tillman Hall. It was listed on the

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in 1977. On June 19, 2020, Winthrop University's board of trustees passed unanimously a resolution requesting South Carolina state legislators to consider amending the Heritage Act of 2000 to "allow Winthrop to restore Tillman Hall to its original name of Main Building."

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