The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 9, 2002.

Battle and closed its doors in 1965,[3] when the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 resulted in the shift of African-Americans to public education.

[2] Abbott Hall was built c. 1929–1930 and is a one-story brick and stucco building with seven bays and a side-gabled roof.

The building's first floor contained a chapel and the chaplain's office as well as space for the business manager and dean.

It was built on the site of the Robert Patton Library and Old Okolona Hall which burned sometime after 1945.