University of Virginia Library

Construction On
New Buildings
To Finish Soon

By Tom Jenks

Two construction projects on
the Grounds - James Southhall
Wilson Hall and the Fine Arts
Building - are nearing completion
and two other projects - additions
to both Garrett Hall and Mary
Munford Hall - are about to get
under way.

James Southhall Wilson Hall,
which will be connected to Cabell
Hall by a glass walkway, will be
ready for use next semester and will
be occupied by classes formerly
housed in Cabell Hall auditorium
and Peabody Hall.

William H. Fishback, director of
Information Services, said, "The
classrooms in Wilson Hall will be
used primarily for English
courses." The new building was
named for former dean and founder
of the Virginia Quarterly Review,
James Southhall Wilson.

L - Shaped

The Fine Arts Building on Carr's
Hill, an l-shaped construction which
is due to be completed and ready
for occupancy by next spring, will
house the School of Architecture
and a library which will be the first
phase of the University's new Fine
Arts Center.

Although it is initially to be
used mainly for the School of
Architecture, the library will later
be for the use of the Departments
of Music, Arts, Speech and Drama,
whose buildings will be erected on
Carr's Hill in the early 1970's.

Garrett Hall

Within the next week,
construction is set to begin on an
addition to Garrett Hall which will
house a computer processing plant
that is now located in the basement
of Garrett Hall. The Registrar's
Office is also located in Garrett
Hall.

One-hundred-and-eighteen more
women students will be housed in
the $549,643 addition which has
been planned for Mary Munford
Hall and which is being partly paid
for by the education bond issue
which was passed in last
November's balloting. Mr. Fishback
told The Cavalier Daily yesterday
that, "construction could possibly
begin within the next two weeks,
but will not be completed until
1970."

Five Projects

Five other construction projects
which have not yet begun but
which have been accorded funds
under the bond issue are set to get
under way between 1968 and 1970.
"The exact dates for these projects
will be released sometime next
week," Paul J. Saunier, director of
the University Relations Office told
the Cavalier Daily.

Among the buildings to be built
under the bond issue are new
housings for the School of Law and
Graduate School of Business
Administration. They will be built
at a total cost of $9.3 million and
will be located on the Duke tract,
northwest of Copley Hill.

$8 Million

A new School of Education and
major new buildings for the School
of Engineering and Applied
Sciences, comprising a 'Science
Center,' will be built near the
intersection of McCormick Road
and Emmet Street at a cost of $8
million.

South of Jefferson Park Avenue,
the bond issue will pay for a
medical center, which is to be
composed of a School of Nursing
and a Medical Communications
Building.

Almost $2 million has been
appropriated for the construction
of such streets, water, sewage and
electrical services as will be
necessary for the new buildings.

When the construction projects
are completed, the School of Law,
the School of Education and the
Graduate School of Business
Administration will all move to new
facilities, emptying the classrooms
and libraries of Clark Hall, Monroe
Hall, Peabody Hall, Minor Hall and
Old Cabell Hall.

Growth will therefore be
permitted in the College, the
Graduate School and the School of
Commerce without any major new
construction for them.

Mr. Fishback said, "the
University's building program is
necessitated by the fact that
originally the University was
projected to have 10,000 students in
1975.

Photo By Brian Snoddy

Minor Construction Continues On Carr's Hill Road In Front Of President's House

Classroom Complex, Fine Arts Building Near Completion While Garrett Hall Additions Just Begin