Guests to Laurel Hall are met with an immediate sense of history and tradition as they enter the building's Grand Lobby. The adjacent dining room opens into a solarium overlooking the manicured grounds. Much of the expansive first floor is devoted to the Ruth Lilly Conference Center and spaces that are rented for private use.

The Grand Lobby
Beautiful walnut paneling and cherry floors grace a central seating area in front of an impressive limestone fireplace. The Grand Lobby welcomes visitors and ushers them into the Lilly Conference Center, the formal dining room, the solarium and the elegant Grand Staircase.

Ruth Lily Conference Center
The Ruth Lilly Conference Center's fifteen foot vaulted ceiling with inlayed designs directs your eyes upward and is offset by a patterned teak wood floor. The room offers excellent accommodations for presentations, seminars, planning or motivational meetings. Conference style for 150 or classroom for 80, the Center provides state of the art A/V facilities as well as WiFi access and the ability to broadcast your program to anyone on the Web.

Executive Board Room
The formal board room has beautiful hardwood floors and walls. Highlighted by a Tudor ceiling and a large bay window set with antique mouth-blown glass, the room serves as a space for board meetings or breakout sessions during a conference. There are few boardrooms in the city with such a fantastic combination of character and capability.

Dining Room
The formal dining room will see many special events and celebrations. With mahogany paneled walls and cabinets and a rare herringbone-patterned floor of exotic hardwoods, it is a fitting site for formal dinners. The room's limestone fireplace serves as a focal point. Recently updated lighting and new furnishings add the finishing touches needed to make guests feel relaxed and ready for conversation.

Grand Staircase
One of the most impressive features of the building is the magnificent three-story carved walnut staircase. Anchoring the lobby and joining the formal areas on the first floor with the ballroom on the third, it is complimented with walls of leaded windows, reflecting Shakespearean and Arthurian legend.

Kitchen
The kitchen has plenty of stainless counter space and cabinets offer room for food preparation. The attached serving pantry is perfect for serving and plating dishes prior to being served.

Music Room
The music room serves as a display area for a baby grand piano and several exceptional Victorian pieces of furniture, as well as a unique break-out area for the conference center. The room also includes unique wood floors, decorative plaster moldings and an intricately carved fireplace.

Solarium
Marked by a magnificent marble floor, the room is ringed on three sides by large windows, accented by limestone columns and cornice work and anchored by a large limestone fireplace on the fourth wall. Offering a view of the grounds, the solarium is by far, the brightest room in the building.

Foundation Wing
The Endowment Fund offices inhabit the space adjacent to the Music Room, Lilly Conference Center and Board Room. The offices accommodate the Endowment's Director, Assistant Director and Administrative Assistant. Originally a tiled loggia open to the elements, the space takes advantage of three walls of glass, capped by beautiful arched windows and an door leading onto the terrace. Brick and limestone walls encircle the room, which display artwork and antiques.