Blount Undergraduate Initiative Tuomey Academic House

Tuomey Academic House

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Building # 1199 | Abbreviation: TU
College of Arts and Sciences

  • Blount Undergraduate Initiative
  • Academic House
  • Danford-Yarbrough Library

Tuomey Hall is an academic house for the Blount Undergraduate Initiative. The building includes offices, a computer lab for professors and students, three classrooms, and a fully equipped kitchen area.

Originally designed as a laboratory for the Department of Chemistry, the building was named after state geologist and university professor Michael Tuomey. In 1927 chemistry moved to Lloyd Hall and the Reserve Officers Training Corps used Tuomey for classrooms and offices until 2000 when the structure was designated as a Blount Undergraduate Initiative Academic House.

In 2009 artist Caleb O’Connor moved into the building in order to paint 16 murals for Tuscaloosa’s new federal courthouse. He will be located there for two years while he works on the paintings.

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 UA News.