Fesler Hall is located on the western end of Indiana University Indianapolis campus as part of the IU Medical Center.

Indiana University used the building as a new center for clinical programs located on the campus to compensate the growing medical student population.

The construction was funded as a Public Works Administration (PWA) project and approved by Governor M. Clifford Townsend due to the lobbying efforts of Thurman B.

[5] Following the United States entrance into World War II, the building supported the education of national defense and public health.

An example was in January 1949, farmers from Shelby County, Indiana protested the erection of a dam on Flatrock River at Hurty Hall citing potential destruction of gas wells in the area.

The pathology department established a small glass jar medical museum on the lower floor for the School of Medicine.

Fesler Hall also contained the new dean’s and school’s administrative offices, department of anesthesiology, and cancer research further serving as a hub for the IU Medical Center.

[14] In 1962, Fesler Hall held the office for the Indiana University real estate operations program run by Charles O.

Hurty was appointed as secretary of the State Board of Health in 1896, where he wrote the first comprehensive pure food and drug law in Indiana.