Battle Hall
Battle Hall | |
Battle Hall in 2014 | |
30°17′07″N 97°44′25″W / 30.28528°N 97.74028°W / 30.28528; -97.74028 | |
Built | 1911 |
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Architect | Cass Gilbert |
Architectural style | Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals |
NRHP reference No. | 70000763[1][2] |
Added to NRHP | August 25, 1970 |
Battle Hall, also known as the "Cass Gilbert Building" and "The Old Library," is a historic library on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas. It is one of four buildings on campus that have been added to the National Register of Historic Places. The others are the Littlefield House, University Junior High School (now the School of Social Work Building) and Little Campus (now called Arno Nowotny Building and John W. Hargis Hall).
The building was designed by New York architect Cass Gilbert in 1911, using a Spanish-Mediterranean Revival style. It served as the main library until the new main building was completed in 1937.[3] It now houses the Architecture and Planning Library, the Alexander Architectural Archives and the Center for American Architecture.
The building's design, particularly its Spanish red tile roof, overhanging eaves and limestone walls, heavily influenced the 1933 master plan developed by Paul Cret, which in turn is a design requirement for new buildings on campus to this day.
By the 1940s, the university's archival collections had outgrown their facilities. The Board of Regents voted to use the Cass Gilbert Building as a library once again, and after 1950, the expanding collections were rededicated as the Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center and moved into the "Old Library."[4]
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ "NRHP nomination form" (PDF). Texas Historical Commission.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Battle Hall". University of Texas Libraries. Archived from the original on October 29, 2017. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
- ^ Hendrickson, Kenneth E. Jr. (2013). "Llerena Friend". Writing the Story of Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press. pp. 92–93.
External links
- Battle Hall history
- The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture
- Architecture and Planning Library
- Alexander Architectural Archives
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- Cockrell School of Engineering
- Dell Medical School
- College of Education
- Moody College of Communication (Department of Radio–Television–Film)
- College of Fine Arts (Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music)
- College of Liberal Arts
- Graduate School
- Hicks School of Social Work
- Jackson School of Geosciences
- School of Law
- Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
- McCombs School of Business
- College of Natural Sciences
- School of Information
- Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
- Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies
- Benson Latin American Collection
- Center for Community College Student Engagement
- Center for Complex Quantum Systems
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- Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
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- Texas Advanced Computing Center
- The William P. Clements Jr. Center for National Security
- ArchNet
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- List of buildings
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- Batts Hall
- Blanton Museum of Art (Austin by Ellsworth Kelly)
- Burdine Hall
- Calhoun Hall
- Cactus Cafe
- Flawn Academic Center
- Garrison Hall
- Goldsmith Hall
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- J.T. Patterson Labs Building
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- Landmarks (public art collection)
- Los Angeles Center
- Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
- Main Building (The Tower)
- McDonald Observatory
- Moody Pedestrian Bridge
- Music Building and Recital Hall
- Painter Hall
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- Physics, Math, and Astronomy Building
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- Statue of Barbara Jordan
- Sutton Hall
- Texas Memorial Museum
- Union Building
- University Teaching Center
- Waggener Hall
- Walter Webb Hall
- Welch Hall
- History of the University
- Stephen F. Austin
- Constitution of 1876
- Fisher v. University of Texas (2013)
- Fisher v. University of Texas (2016)
- Hopwood v. Texas
- Sweatt v. Painter
- Tower shooting
- Admissions controversy
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