ENGLISH BUILDING
Building ID: 1107
428 Colonial Drive
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401
The English Building, constructed in 1911, is home to the Department of English, including the freshman English and creative writing programs. Fiction and poetry readings, as well as dance performances, are held in the auditorium which re-opened in 2000 after a $1 million renovation, the first since its construction. The building has English offices on the ground floor and a computer lab on the second. The English Computer Lab (ECL), the oldest and largest of the College of Arts and Sciences computer facilities is networked to all other Arts and Sciences computer labs, provides two computer classrooms for online classes as well as general computer access for all English faculty and students. The English Building was built in the Beaux-Arts style out of Missouri yellow brick with stone trim and was designed to be a complement to Smith Hall, which was built along with B.B. Comer around 1907 to 1910. This building housed the School of Law on the third floor from 1911 until the construction of Farrah Hall in 1927.