CLARK HALL
Building ID: 1040 | Abbreviation: CL
712 Capstone Drive
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401
Clark Hall, built in1884 and named for the 1800s University Trustee Willis G. Clark, contains the Dean of Arts and Sciences Office and the Department of Theatre and Dance's dance studio. It is the central building of the College of Arts and Sciences. A 3400-square-foot studio, which used to be a public meeting room and is now the dance studio, exists on the third floor. The Arts and Sciences advising and administrative offices are located on second floor while the fourth floor contains Arts and Sciences' Financial Services. Clark Hall, constructed on the site of the old Lyceum dorm that was destroyed during the Civil War, was originally designed as an all purpose building and contained a library, reading rooms, chapel, and large public meeting room with a balcony. Sixteen items were placed in the cornerstone of the new building, including a silver 1821 dime from the cornerstone of the Lyceum dorm. The large meeting room was used for the University's commencement ceremonies, but the extremely tall windows created a terrible glare and inconvenienced all within. Determined to cut down the glare, the university had yellow, green, blue, brown, and orange cathedral glass" installed but the glass was so brittle that it was heavily damaged in a hail storm a few years later."