Farrah Hall

Farrah Hall

Quick Info

Building # 7054 | Abbreviation: FA
College of Arts and Sciences

  • Criminal Justice
  • Geography - Cartography Laboratory, Map Library, Placenames Research

Office of Information Technology

  • Center for Instructional Technology - Classroom Resource Center, Event Tech

Classrooms are located on the first floor while a court house styled lecture room and offices are on the ground floor. The Cartographic Research Laboratory and more offices are on the third floor. A graduate student lounge is located between the undergraduate and graduate student computer labs and has couches and a community fridge, microwave, and coffee pot.

The map library, located on the third floor, is a regional depository for the U.S.G.S. and D.M.A. and includes over 1,700 monographs, 270,000 maps and 75,000 aerial photographs. The library also houses the Place Names Research Center of the United States and is active in toponymic studies. The library's hours of operation can be found at the Map Library Web site.

Farrah Hall was constructed in 1927 to house the UA School of Law and was named for Dean Albert J. Farrah. When the Law school moved to their new building in 1978 the University renovated the building for use by the Criminal Justice Program.

Images

Information collected from The University of Alabama : a guide to the campus by Robert Oliver Mellown (Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1988), The University of Alabama, a pictorial history by Suzanne Rau Wolfe (University : University of Alabama Press, c1983), and the Map Library Web site.