List of University of Texas at Austin buildings
# List of University of Texas at Austin buildings

This list of University of Texas at Austin buildings catalogs the currently existing structures on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas. Buildings are categorized based on their current functions and characteristics.

## Academic facilities

| Building | Constructed | Notes |
| - | - | - |
| Art Building | 1962 | Located at the northeast corner of San Jacinto Blvd. and 23rd St., the building houses the Department of Art and Art History and the Visual Arts Center. |
| Battle Hall | 1911 | Originally the main library, now houses the Architecture and Planning Library, the Alexander Architectural Archive and the Center for American Architecture. National Register of Historic Places listed. Cass Gilbert architect. |
| Batts Hall | 1953 | "6 Pack" building |
| Belo Center for New Media | 2012 | Houses parts of the Moody College of Communication, including the facilities of KUT and KUTX |
| Benedict Hall | 1951 | Located on the South Mall of the University of Texas at Austin campus, the five-floor, 38,580 square foot building is located along 21st Street, near Littlefield Fountain. Built in 1951 and named after mathematics professor and university president H. Y. Benedict, the building was completed in 1952 and was originally home to the Department of Mathematics. It has also been used for the psychology department. It is also a "6 Pack" building, the first of the "6-Pack" buildings to be built. |
| Biological Laboratories | 1923 | Now houses Botany |
| Biomedical Engineering Building | 2008 | |
| Burdine Hall | 1970 | Urban legend says the layout of the building's windows was intended to resemble a computer punched card. |
| Calhoun Hall | 1955 | "6 Pack" building |
| College of Business Administration Building | 1962 | (Formerly Business Administration-Economics Building), consists of two units: a seven-story office structure and a six-story classroom building; houses McCombs School of Business; part of the George Kozmetsky Center for Business Education complex. |
| Connally Center | 2000 | Four story addition to Townes Hall that houses the Connally Center for the Administration of Justice, containing the Kraft W. Eidman Courtroom and the Texas Center for Public Policy Dispute Resolution. 3D/International, Inc. Architect. |
| Peter T. Flawn Academic Center | 1960 | Student technology and collaboration facility. Also called the Main Building Annex, because of offices originally in the Main Building, but moved because of renovations. |
| Garrison Hall | 1926 | |
| Gates-Dell Complex | 2013 | Consists of two buildings: the north building (Dell Computer Science Hall) and south building (unnamed). They are connected by an atrium and a series of collaboration bridges. |
| Mary E. Gearing Hall | 1933 | Long known as the Home Economics Building |
| Gebauer Building | 1904 | Dorothy L. Gebauer Building, formerly the student services building |
| Goldsmith Hall | 1932 | Houses School of Architecture |
| Graduate School of Business | 1976 | Home to McCombs School of Business graduate programs; part of the George Kozmetsky Center for Business Education complex. |
| W. C. Hogg Building | 1933 | |
| Hogg Memorial Auditorium | 1932 | |
| Jesse H. Jones Hall | 1980 | Annex to Townes hall and the Tarlton Law library. |
| Jones Communication Center | | Houses parts of the Moody College of Communication, including the facilities of KLRU |
| Liberal Arts Building | 2012 | Liberal Arts & ROTC |
| Mezes Hall | 1952 | "6 Pack" building |
| Moffett Molecular Biology Building | 1997 | |
| Neural and Molecular Science Building | 2005 | |
| Norman Hackerman Building | 2007 | Biology and Chemistry departments |
| Nursing School | | |
| Painter Hall | 1932 | Formerly the Physics Building |
| Parlin Hall | 1954 | "6 Pack" building |
| Perry–Castañeda Library | 1974-1977 | The main central library. |
| Homer Rainey Hall | 1956 | "6 Pack" building, formerly "Old Music" Hall, last of the "6-Pack" buildings to be built |
| Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center | 1972 | Acquires and manages collections of significant cultural materials such as rare books, manuscripts, film and art. |
| Sid Richardson Hall | 1971 | Houses the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, Barker Texas History Collections, Benson Latin American Collection, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, Public Affairs (Wasserman) Library, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) and RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service |
| George I. Sanchez Building | 1973 | Houses the University of Texas College of Education, the Office of Bilingual Education, the Center for Science and Mathematics Education, and the Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts. |
| School of Social Work Building | 1933 | Old University Junior High School. National Register of Historic Places listed |
| Sutton Hall | 1917 | Cass Gilbert architect |
| University Teaching Center | 1981-1984 | Four-story general purpose classroom building; part of the George Kozmetsky Center for Business Education complex. |
| Townes Hall | 1953 | The third and current home of the University of Texas School of Law and Tarlton Law Library. |
| Waggener Hall | 1931 | Named after Leslie Waggener, first university president ad interim. Originally occupied by the school of business; now home to Department of Philosophy, Department of Classics, and Classics Library. |
| Welch Hall | 1929, 1958, & 1974 | Chemistry |
| West Mall Building | 1962 | Architecture, UTSOA Materials Lab |
| W.R. Woolrich Laboratories | 1958 | Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics |

## Administrative buildings

| Building | Constructed | Notes | Reference |
| - | - | - | - |
| John W. Hargis Hall | 1858 | Houses the Undergraduate Admissions Center, is part of the "Little Campus," and is National Register of Historic Places listed. | Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired. |
| Main Building | 1937 | Houses the University's main administrative offices. Charles Whitman killed 13 people with a sniper rifle from the top of the tower in 1966. | |
| West Mall Office Building | 1961 | | |
| Wooldridge Hall | 1924 | Demolished in 2010. Housed the International Office. Formerly it housed the School of Architecture design studios while Goldsmith Hall was being renovated in the mid to late 1980s. Originally it was the Wooldridge School, an Austin elementary school. | |

## Athletic and outdoor recreation facilities

| Building | Opened | Notes |
| - | - | - |
| Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium | 1924 | Originally Texas Memorial Stadium, the stadium was renamed in 1996 after Darrell K Royal, former football coach who led Texas to three national championships and eleven Southwest Conference titles. |
| Frank Erwin Special Events Center | 1977 | Sometimes referred to as "The Drum" or "The Superdrum", owing to its drum-like exterior appearance, the facility is the home court for the UT men's and women's basketball programs. |
| Gregory Gymnasium | 1930 | |
| Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center | 1977 | |
| Mike A. Myers Track & Soccer Stadium | 1999 | |
| Penick-Allison Tennis Center | | |
| Recreational Sports Center | 1990 | |
| Red and Charline McCombs Field | 1998 | |
| Texas Rowing Center | | |
| UFCU Disch-Falk Field | 1975 | The stadium is named for former Longhorns coaches Billy Disch and Bibb Falk. In 2006, the facility underwent a $21 million renovation and added UFCU to its name following sponsorship by local credit union University Federal Credit Union. |
| Anna Hiss Gymnasium | 1931 | Originally the women's gymnasium. In 1994 the natatorium wing was demolished to make way for the Louise and James Robert Moffett Molecular Biology Building. |

## Museums

| Building | Constructed | Notes |
| - | - | - |
| Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art | 2006 | Art museum. |
| Dolph Briscoe Center for American History | 1971 | Organized research unit and public service component of The University of Texas at Austin. Located in Sid Richardson Hall. |
| Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum | 1971 | Adjacent to the LBJ School of Public Affairs, the LBJ Library and Museum houses 40 million pages of historical documents, including the papers of Lyndon Baines Johnson and those of his close associates and others. |
| Texas Memorial Museum | 1937 | UT and Austin's Natural Science & Texas History museum. National Register of Historic Places listed. |

## Residential buildings

| Building | Constructed | Notes |
| - | - | - |
| Almetris Duren Residence Hall | 2007 | |
| Andrews Residence Hall | 1936 | |
| Blanton Residence Hall | 1955 | |
| Brackenridge Residence Hall | 1933 | |
| Carothers Residence Hall | 1937 | Carothers Hall was known as "Unit II" until March 1938 when it was renamed in honor of Asenath Carothers, who became the director of The Woman's Building on campus in 1903. In 1937, the hall was built with financial assistance from the Public Works Administration at a cost of $250,000 of which $72,000 was grants and the rest was paid for with loans. Paul Cret was consulting architect for the building and as a result it was made in Spanish Renaissance style with creamy tan bricks and red tile roof. |
| Creekside Residence Hall | 1955 | Formerly Simkins Dormitory. The dormitory was named after William Stewart Simkins, who was a law professor and a Ku Klux Klan figure. In 2010, the university held a public hearing to discuss the possibility of renaming the building, and the name was changed to Creekside shortly thereafter. It is the last all-male dormitory operated by UT. |
| Jester Center | 1969 | Named after former governor Beauford H. Jester, Jester Center includes two towers: a 14-level residence and a 10-level residence with a capacity of 3,200. When built, the complex, which occupies a full city block, was the largest residence hall in North America and was the largest building project in University history. |
| Kinsolving Residence Hall | 1958 | |
| Littlefield Residence Hall | 1927 | |
| Moore-Hill Residence Hall | 1939–1956 | Moore-Hill houses a total of 390 residents in double rooms with community bath spaces. This 5 story coed dormitory houses males on the basement level and on the 1st and 3rd floors. Females live on the 2nd and 4th floors. The mascot of this dorm is the Moore-Hill Pirate. Moore-Hill dormitory was once two separate living halls, Hill Hall and Moore Hall. Hill Hall was named for Dr. Homer Barksdale Hill of Austin who volunteered to treat the UT Football team from the very first game in 1893 until his death on July 18, 1923. Dr. Hill received his MD from Tulane University and moved to Austin in 1889. Moore Hall was named in memory of Dean Victor Ivan Moore who served as the Dean of Student Life from 1927 until his death on August 6, 1943. |
| Prather Residence Hall | 1937 | |
| Roberts Residence Hall | 1936 | |
| San Jacinto Residence Hall | 2000 | |
| Whitis Court Residence Hall | 1953–1969 | |

### University Apartments

There are also three off-campus apartment complexes owned and operated by the university. They are Brackenridge Apartments, Colorado Apartments, and Gateway Apartments. The apartments are about 6 miles (9.7 km) from the main UT Austin campus. Eligible students include graduate students and undergraduate students who each have at least 30 credit hours and are in good academic standing. Brackenridge apartments is Family Housing; Colorado and Gateway Apartments are assigned by the bedroom to UT Austin Students.

Brackenridge Apartments is a part of the 345-acre (140 ha) UT Austin Brackenridge tract, located along Lake Austin and Lady Bird Lake in western Austin. As of 2007 the units at Brackenridge Apartments do not have washers, dryers, and dishwashers. As of that year some units at Brackenridge do not have central air conditioning. As of that year the monthly rent for a three bedroom apartment was $715. The university provides shuttle buses to the UT Austin campus. At Brackenridge Apartments many neighbors know each other and area children interact with one another. Many residents originate from other countries. Brackenridge is .5 miles (0.80 km) away from Colorado Apartments.

Colorado Apartments has 510 units. The rent at Colorado, as of 2007, was half of the Austin apartment market rate. In 2007 540 students lived in the complex; about 70% come from outside of the United States. Of the spouses of the students, many are unable to work because their visas do not permit them to work.

The Colorado and Brackenridge units have painted concrete panel and brick exteriors, colored orange.

The Colorado Apartments area includes a gazebo, picnic tables, and a soccer (football) field. A grocery store is located in proximity to the complex.

All three apartments are within the Austin Independent School District and are zoned to Mathews Elementary School, O. Henry Middle School, and Austin High School. Many children of the UT Austin students living at Brackenridge and Colorado attend Mathews Elementary. School buses come to Brackenridge to pick up students to go to Mathews. The school is considered by the area community to be high achieving. Mathews has a racially/ethnically diverse student body. The school offers Chinese language classes. The school opened circa 1916.. In 2007 there were about 400 students, from over 40 countries, with 125 from the UT complexes.

**History of university family apartments**

The Colorado Apartments opened in 1962.

In 1989 the City of Austin and UT Austin entered into an agreement, allowing UT Austin the option of redeveloping the parcels of land housing the university family apartments. The agreement specifies that the parcels may be redeveloped to house residential, retail, and/or other commercial properties. The agreement regarding the parcel with the Colorado Apartments went into effect in 1999. The agreement regarding Brackenridge Apartments was scheduled to go into effect in 2009.

In 2005 the University of Texas Board of Regents offered the parcels of land with the Colorado Apartments as a possible site for the location of the George W. Bush Presidential Library; ultimately Southern Methodist University received the library. As of the northern hemisphere spring semester of 2007, 268 students were on a waiting list to get into units at Brackenridge Apartments. In August of that year, over 500 students submitted an intention to move into the units. Around 2007 a task force recommended selling the tract including the Brackenridge Apartments and the Colorado Apartments to developers, who would replace the apartments with commercial property. The options presented by the task force were keeping the housing at the same location, moving the housing to a new location, and giving a housing subsidy to students to pay for the costs of housing at third party locations. The graduate student community states that they preferred keeping the apartments where they were and did not support the housing subsidy idea. The community of Mathews Elementary believed that if the UT student housing was removed, the community would lose the international student culture that comes with the children who live on the complex.

When asked by the Austin American-Statesman. about the details of the recommendations of the planners to redevelop Gateway Apartments to be a larger complex and replacing the functions of Brackenridge and Colorado apartments, William Powers Jr., the UT Austin president, said that the components of the new housing plan that would be essential for the students would include having "garden-style" apartment units instead of high-rise dormitory units, having facilities for children, and continued zoning to Mathews Elementary.

## Other facilities

| Building | Constructed | Notes |
| - | - | - |
| Union Building | 1933 & 1960 | Texas Union Ballroom |
| Littlefield House | 1893 | Historic residence donated to the University in 1935. |
| AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center | 2008 | 276 guest room and 21 suite hotel and conference center. Home to McCombs Executive Education courses. |
| J. Frank Dobie House | 1926 | Former home of J. Frank Dobie. Houses the Michener Center for Writers |
| Arno Nowotny Building | 1857 | Part of the Little Campus; houses the office of the director of the Briscoe Center |
