Countless students have called the University home over the years, with many living in the same inspiring halls of the past.
University archivist Barry Cowan detailed the history of on-campus residence halls and how they have evolved since their construction.
 
TIGER STADIUM
For Adrian Naquin, Saturday nights in Death Valley during his undergraduate years were rattling — literally. Naquin, who lived in the Tiger Stadium North residence hall as a freshman in 1971, described the rooms as “indestructible.”
“Almost everything in the room was concrete,” he said. “The walls, the floor, the desk you studied at. The two closets in the room had metal doors. The whole place was campus.”
Johnston, Hatcher and Hodges halls were built along Fieldhouse Drive and the first Married Housing buildings were constructed on the west side of Nicholson Drive for the post-war boom in student population. Those buildings were constructed between 1947 and 1949.
 
ACADIAN HALL
Before it became a residence hall, Acadian Hall served as an language-learning environment for the Spanish Department, Cowan said.
“Acadian Hall started out life as the Pan American House,” Cowan said. “It was built as a cultural center for Latin American and United States culture. There was room for about 20 students to