Morgan Hall

Morgan Hall

Quick Info

Building # 1107 | Abbreviation: MR
College of Arts and Sciences

  • English- Creative Writing, Freshman English, Graduate Studies, TESOL
  • Morgan Auditorium

Department of English

Morgan Hall, 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 Morgan 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.

Morgan Hall is named for John Tyler Morgan, a U.S. Senator from 1876 to 1907 who in 1882 helped obtain indemnity from the Federal government for the destruction of the campus in 1865. It was built in the Beaux-Arts style out of Missouri yellow brick with stone trim and was designed to be a compliment to Smith Hall, which was built along with B.B. Comer around 1907 to 1910. Morgan Hall housed the School of Law on the third floor from 1911 until the construction of Farrah Hall in 1927.

Images

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