Rhyne Building

The Rhyne Building is named for Daniel Efird Rhyne, a Lutheran business man from Lincoln County, who made a generous donation to a rebuilding effort after a fire on the campus of then Lenoir College. The name of the college was later changed to Lenoir-Rhyne College to honor Rhyne’s donation. Today, the Rhyne building is the main academic building on campus and houses the College of Fine Arts and Communication, College of Humanities and Social Sciences and College of Education and Human Services. Many classes that are part of the core requirements take place in Rhyne, therefore, every student will have classes in here. Even core requirements meet the average class size of 17 and the campus wide student-to-faculty ratio of 12:1.