Benjamin Wacoche Hall was Bacone College's first stand-alone dining hall, built in 1924 with major support from Benjamin Wacoche, a Creek man from Coweta, Oklahoma. The building cost $50,000, including a $20,000 donation from Wacoche, with additional contributions from Seman Jackson, Amy Simpson, and Lena Alexander. Its cornerstone was laid on May 5, 1914 by S.E. Wallen, superintendent of the Five Civilized Tribes, and named the American Baptist Home Mission Society, Bacone College president Benjamin D. Weeks, architect Chas W. Dawson, and contractor James H. Reddick. The dining hall accommodated 400 students and remained in use for that purpose until 2004, when dining operations moved to Bacone Inn. In 1970, the basement was excavated for a student social area. Today the Collegiate Gothic-style building is used mainly for school events, City of Muskogee community activities, dances, and weddings. Inside are three student-painted murals: The Feast Ceremony by George Kishketon, Kickapoo, celebrating feasting, songs, and fellowship after a successful hunt; Ceremony of Fasting by Calvin Larvie, Sioux, showing the purification ritual of a young warrior setting out on his first war path; and Prayer Attitudes, also by Larvie, depicting procedures and attitudes of prayer during a ceremony of thanks to the Great Spirit.