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More than 675 pounds of dynamite will be used to implode the old Julia Tutwiler Hall, with detonation set for 7 a.m. July 4 in Tuscaloosa.
The old Tutwiler residence hall on the University of Alabama campus was imploded July 4, 2022.
The early move-in period began Wednesday in Tuscaloosa with some UA students making a bit of history as the first residents of the new Tutwiler Hall.
Julia Tutwiler was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama to Julia (Ashe) Tutwiler and educator Henry Tutwiler on August 15, 1841. Henry had been one of the first professors at the University of Alabama in the early 1830s, but at the time of his daughter's birth he was teaching at La Grange College in Colbert County, Alabama.
Garland Hall, which housed the geology museum and lecture rooms, completed what became known as Woods Quad. Tuomey and Barnard Halls were also built before 1900. The medical school and pharmacy school were in Mobile at the time. [9] The university was officially opened to women in 1892 after much lobbying by Julia Tutwiler to the Board of Trustees.
In 1949 Gallalee Hall was built to house a new observatory. The last building constructed facing the Quad was the Rose Administration Building, completed in 1969. It was built on the site of the first incarnation of Julia Tutwiler Hall, a dormitory built in 1914 and demolished to make way for the new building. [2] [3]
Little Hall is a historic building on the campus of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, Alabama. It was built in 1915 and designed by Frank Lockwood of Montgomery as the university's first stand-alone gymnasium. The gymnasium was named for William Gray "Bill" Little (1873–1938), the student credited with introducing football to the ...
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