Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Added to NRHP. July 14, 1971. The Gorgas–Manly Historic District is a historic district that includes 12 acres (4.9 ha) and eight buildings on the campus of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. [1] The buildings represent the university campus as it existed from the establishment of the institution through to the late 19th century.
The Quad is an approximately 22-acre (8.9 ha) quadrangle on the campus of the University of Alabama located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Home to most of the university's original buildings, this portion of the campus remains the geographic and historic center of the modern campus. Originally designed by architect William Nichols, construction of the ...
72000186 [1] Added to NRHP. January 14, 1972. The President's Mansion is a historic Greek Revival style mansion on the campus of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. It has served as the official residence of university presidents ever since its completion in 1841. [2][3] The structure narrowly avoided destruction during the ...
Completed. 1929. Owner. University of Alabama. Height. 115 feet (35 m) [1] Denny Chimes is a 115-foot (35 m) tall campanile tower on the south side of The Quad at the University of Alabama, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The tower was named in honor of George H. Denny, who served as university president from 1912 to 1936 and again as interim president ...
From a small campus of seven buildings in the wilderness on the main road between Tuscaloosa and Huntsville (now University Boulevard) in the 1830s, UA has grown to a massive 1,970-acre (800 ha) campus in the heart of Tuscaloosa. There are 297 buildings on campus containing some 10,600,000 square feet (980,000 m 2) of space. [23]
Tuscaloosa (Ala.): The University of Alabama Press, 1988. ISBN 0-817-30395-2; Mellown, Robert Oliver. The University of Alabama: A Guide to the Campus and Its Architecture. Tuscaloosa (Ala.): The University of Alabama Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8173-5680-4; Reed, Delbert. All of Us Fought the War: The University of Alabama and its Men and Women in ...
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, first church of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when he began his work as a national civil rights activist, in 1955 with the Montgomery bus boycott in Montgomery Gaineswood in Demopolis Clark Hall in the Gorgas–Manly Historic District on the University of Alabama campus Tannehill Ironworks in Tuscaloosa ...
Coleman Coliseum is a 15,383-seat multi-purpose arena in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on the campus of the University of Alabama. It is the current home of the Alabama Crimson Tide men's and women's basketball and women's gymnastics teams, and previously served as the home of the women's volleyball program. Opened in 1968 as Memorial Coliseum as a ...