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History: Served as the President's Mansion until 1938
Current Use: Offices of Student Affairs
Interesting Fact: Listed in the national register of historic places. Call outs |
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| Marriage/ Family Therapy Center (Glanton House) |
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History: named for Louis Phillips Glanton
Current Use: Framily and Youth counseling and education |
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History: Operated continuously since 1926 and has been accredited since 1986 by the National Association for the education of Young Children.
Current Use: AUELC is lab preschool serving children ages 3-5 in morning and afternoon programs. Located on the concourse. |
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History: Named after Auburn's third president, a Confederate Army captain
Current Use: House the department of communication and Journalism, Radio, Television, and Film.
Interesting Fact: Once housed the collge of business |
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History: Named after Charles Thach, AU's 6th president.
Current Use: Houses the history and psychology departments and the auditroium is used for Freshman classes.
Interesting Fact: Held the college of business until Lowder was built. |
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History: Named for Paul Haley who served on the board of trustees for 50 years and only missed one meeting
Current Use: Houses colleges of education and liberal arts and the university bookstore. The top floor of Haley is Eagle's Nest, a lounge and observation deck that can only be accessed by Student Recruiter, WEGP, or authorized personnel. Tiger tables takes place on the first floor during CWE. Advising for the Collges of Educations and Liberal Arts
Intersting Fact: Tallest building on campus |
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History: completed in 1910 as Carnegie Library
Current Use: houses offices of admissions and records, career development center, and the student financial services
Interesting Facts: one of the first buildings to have electricity |
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History: originally known as the woman's quadrangle
Current Use: All halls are co-ed except Lupton and Owen. the upper quad halls are for the honors collge. Upper quad: harper, Broun, Teague, and Little. Lower quad: Owen, Keller, Lupton, Lane, Glenn, Dowdell
Interesting Fact: Only about 50% of upper quad residents are in the honors collge |
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History: originally the dining hall for the women who lived in the quad
Current Use: offices of undergraduate recruitment and scholarship, the quad post office and laundry room |
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Hitory: originally built by Sigma Nu as their on campus residence hall
Current Use: offices for the continuing education program |
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| Ralph Brown Draughon Library |
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History: named for Auburn's 10th president
Current Use: 2.5 million volumes. seating space for 2500 students/faculty. Office of diversity and multicultural affairs. study partners tutoring group
Interesting Facts: Internet Cafe with starbucks |
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History: named for Marion Spidle, a previous dean of home economics
Current Use: Houses the collge of Human Sciences. Human sciences advising during CWE
Intersting Fact: three departments in human sciences: consume affairs, HDFS, and Nutrition and food science |
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| Current Use: organization days. hey day. |
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History: Named for William Parker, a former head of the Math department
Current Use: classrooms and offices. math classes and physics labs
Interesting Fact: Dr. Parker established the PhD program at Auburn |
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History: first of two buildings on campus to have modern facilities in chemistry
Current Use: classrooms/labs/offices/meeting rooms
Intersting Facts: 36000 sqaure feet |
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History: composed of the Science center labs, science center auditorium, and the science center classrooms
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History: composed of the Science center labs, science center auditorium, and the science center classrooms
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History: named for Ralph Dudley
Current Use: originally built to house the fine arts department but now houses the CADC and CADC library.
Intersting Fact: pumpkin Carve |
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History: named for james and Virginia Goodwin who donated the money for the building
Current Use: music department. band and choral auditions.
Interesting Facts: in 2004, the AU marching band was awarded the Sudler Intercollgeiate Marching Band Trophy |
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History: named after Telfair Peet. A former play director and english teacher.
Current Use: houses the theatre department, seats 405 people, and was one of the first handicap accesible buildings on campus
Interesting Fact: The theater department used to use the univeristy chapel and it said that it was haunted by a civil war ghost named sydney who now haunts the telfair peet theatre |
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History: built as a campsite for farmers and 4-h youth
Current Use: farm and 4-h conferences, plays, pep rallies, and community church services |
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History: named for howard Swingle, a pioneer of the fisheries department
Current Use: Department of fisheries and allied aquacultures
Interesting Facts: headquarters for the fishers north of campus |
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History: Named for Braxton Comer, former governor of Alabama
Current Use: Collge of Agriculture, department of research information, etc
Intersting Fact: the inside of building was gutted by a fire and redone with all native alabama wood |
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| Forestry and Wildlife sciences building |
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History: President William Muse recognized the school as an Auburn peak of excellence and they needed a building
Current Use: School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences
Intersting Facts: built for 24 million dollars, over 4 million of which came from private funds |
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