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1. Historic Tour

   Enjoy a self-guided audio tour of 20 historically significant locations.

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   1. Torchbearer Statue and Circle Park

      Torchbearer Statue
      The Volunteer Statue is actually more famous by its nickname, the Torchbearer. The statue was unveiled in 1968, over three decades after the Torchbearer became UT’s official symbol. The sculptor, Theodore Andre Beck, was the winner of a contest in 1931 to create a symbol of a Volunteer. However, in Beck’s original design, the figure appeared older, paunchy according to some critics, and he held a lantern waist high. Students and faculty objected at times during the design process, even marching to the office of UT President Andy Holt in 1967 to voice their opposition, so Beck modified his design multiple times. He made the figure look younger and more in shape, the clothing less classical, changed the lantern to a torch held high, added a sheathed sword, and put a Goddess of Victory in the figure’s left hand.

      In 1932, UT adopted the Volunteer Creed to accompany the representation. “One that beareth a torch shadoweth oneself to give light to others." At the base of the statue, the creed is displayed on a plaque given as the senior gift from the Class of 1995. Funding issues changed the original plan for a 26-foot-tall statue to the nine-foot statue that stands at Circle Park.

       

      Circle Park
      From the 1800s until the 1960s, Circle Park was the hub of a Knoxville neighborhood bounded by Victorian-era residences. The father of landscape design, Frederick Law Olmsted who designed Central Park in New York City, may have helped plan Circle Park’s landscaping in 1893. The neighborhood went on to become a streetcar stop during the early 1900s. Neighborhood residents required that UT preserve Circle Park when it became part of campus during an expansion in the late 1960s. At that time, the neighborhood included some fraternity houses along with private homes.

   2. McClung Museum

      Circle Park is home to the Frank H. McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture. The desire to create a museum began in the 1930s as UT archaeologist Thomas M.N. Lewis excavated 62 sites that would be affected by the Tennessee Valley Authority’s flood control efforts. Then in 1955, Ellen McClung Green and her husband, Judge John Green, provided funds to build a museum named for her father, a merchant and descendant of the city of Knoxville founder.

      After the building was completed in 1961, the archaeological and anthropological collections were named after Lewis, who had become the first director, and assistant curator, Madeline Kneberg. The museum building was formally dedicated in 1963 and given its current name in 2013. Since a full-time educator started at the museum in 1990, thousands of school children have received docent-led instruction. McClung Museum became a Smithsonian Affiliate Museum in 2002. More than 1.4 million visitors have enjoyed programs and exhibits, and thousands of UT undergraduates have attended classes at the museum.

   3. Pat Summitt Plaza

      Pat Summitt transformed and legitimized the sport of basketball during her 38-year career as head coach of the Lady Vols. She pushed for and received more TV coverage of the game and helped create not only the brand of Lady Vols basketball, but the sport in general. During some years, the Lady Vols challenged the men’s teams in attendance and exceeded them in national exposure.

      Summitt spoke to countless organizations to encourage young people in their development of self-esteem, confidence, and athleticism. Many times, college recruits from other sports even asked for an audience with Summitt. Before he committed to a college, star football recruit Peyton Manning spoke to Summitt and then chose UT.

      Famous for her intensity, Summitt's competitive fire was reflected in her steely blue eyes and an icy stare that often connected with, and strengthened the resolve of, her student–athletes. Along with their dominance on the court, all 161 of Summitt’s Lady Vols graduated.

      In 1974, Pat Head Summitt was a 22-year-old graduate assistant coach for the women’s basketball team when she was named head coach. By the time the 59-year-old retired as head coach emeritus in 2012, Summitt—herself an Olympic silver medalist as a player—had led the Lady Vols to eight national championships in 38 seasons and became the winningest coach in NCAA basketball history with 1,098 wins. Her coaching career earned her the title "Naismith Women's Collegiate Coach of the Century" for the 1900s. She was also named national coach of the year seven times and Southeastern Conference coach of the year eight times.

      Summitt retired a year after revealing she was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. She went on to create the Pat Summitt Foundation and raised awareness worldwide about Alzheimer's disease. In 2012, Summitt received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Arthur Ashe Courage Award.

      This statue of Coach Summitt, which she helped dedicate in 2013, stands across from Thompson-Boling Arena where the basketball court is named the Summitt in her honor. She died in 2016.

   4. General Robert Neyland Statue

      Robert Reese Neyland was named Tennessee’s head football coach in 1926 while he was an assistant coach, an ROTC instructor, and a major in the Army. His only piece of instruction for his new role was to beat Vanderbilt since the Commodores began trouncing the Vols in 1920. It took three years, but Neyland delivered on that win and many more.

      He developed one of the most efficient single-wing offenses in the country, complemented by an unyielding defense. Of the 216 games he coached, the Vols shut out their opponents 112 times. In fact, from 1938–40, his teams recorded 17 consecutive regular season shutouts. Neyland’s teams eventually won four national championships and compiled an overall record of 173 wins, 31 losses, and 12 ties.

      During World War II, Neyland left his coaching duties and returned to active service, eventually earning a promotion to brigadier general. After the war ended and Neyland resumed coaching at UT in 1946, he was known as “The General.”

      Although health issues forced Neyland to step down from coaching six years later, he served as UT athletic director for a decade and helped design this stadium. The university trustees voted to name Neyland Stadium in his honor about a month before his death in 1962. UT dedicated this statue of him with his seven game maxims in 2010.

   5. Alumni Memorial Building

      Since Alumni Memorial Building opened during Homecoming 1934 as a combination gymnasium and auditorium, a wide variety of celebrities have taken the stage. Andy Griffith, Frank Sinatra, and the B-52s are only a few of the acts to perform here. Legendary Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff gave his last concert here in 1943, five weeks before his death.

      Alumni Memorial is dedicated to the 27 students and alumni who died in World War I as well as four who perished in the Spanish-American War. Their names are preserved on a plaque in the building.

      BarberMcMurry Architects designed Alumni Memorial along with Hoskins Library, Hesler Hall, Melrose Hall, and Dabney Hall. The architecture firm was co-founded by Charles Barber, whose father George Barber transformed Tyson House.

      In 2003, Alumni Memorial was renovated to house new instruction rooms, rehearsal halls, the 950-seat James R. Cox Auditorium, and a $1 million organ largely funded by Cox. The organ was custom designed by Richards, Fowkes, and Co. in Ooltewah, Tennessee, and stands more than 20 feet tall. It includes over 2,000 pipes and three keyboards that together produce a quality of music previously unheard at the university. During the organ's construction, UT employed an acoustic engineer to help improve the organ’s tonal spectrum and frequency range. This included the addition of more sound panels and the removal of sound deadening material in the ceiling. The organ was first played in concert in 2007.

   6. Student Union

      The Student Union was built and opened in two phases that took more than nine years of planning and construction. It is the largest construction project in UT history.

      The first phase, which is home to the VolShop and the Center for Career Development, opened in 2015. The second phase, including a 30-foot glass torch sculpture, ballrooms, and an auditorium, opened in 2019.

      The Student Union is also home to the Visitors Center for Undergraduate Admissions, the starting point of campus visits for more than 30,000 prospective students and their families each year.

      The building stands on the site of the former Carolyn P. Brown Memorial University Center which opened in 1954. Despite an addition in 1967 that more than doubled the size of the University Center, UT still needed the additional space created by construction of the Student Union.

      UT’s first student and recreation center was a YMCA building that stood from 1890 until it was destroyed by fire in 1943.

   7. The Hill, Ayres Hall, and South College

      Campus during the Civil War
      During the Civil War, our institution was called East Tennessee University and three buildings called Old College, East College, and West College stood on the Hill where Ayres Hall stands today. The war lasted from 1861 to 1865, but campus didn’t close until the second year. The Confederate Army was in control of Knoxville at first, and wounded soldiers occupied some campus buildings. In the fall of 1863, the Union Army took control of Knoxville, built fortifications including one on the Hill called Fort Byington, and defeated the Confederates in the Battle of Fort Sanders. The neighborhood across Cumberland Avenue from campus is named after Fort Sanders and includes the site where the fort stood. The Union Army used campus as a hospital and barracks for the wounded, but their occupation also caused a great deal of damage. The troops denuded the grounds of trees, ruined the steward’s house which served as a dining hall, and destroyed the gymnasium with misdirected cannon fire. After the Civil War ended in 1865, the Union Army left campus. The university reopened in 1866 and operated for six months downtown in the Deaf and Dumb Asylum while repairs began at the damaged campus. In 1874, the university administration finally received $18,500 from the federal government for aid given to the Union during the war.

      Ayres Hall
      Ayres Hall, a four-story brick and limestone structure completed in 1921, is UT’s most recognized academic building. It took the place of West College, Old College, and East College, which had served as the university’s principal buildings for more than a century. Ayres Hall is named for UT’s 12th president, Brown Ayres, who helped plan its construction using UT’s first $1 million appropriation from the state of Tennessee. The construction project still lacked funds, however, and some elements of the original design such as the clock faces on the bell tower, a plaza on the north side of the building, and a wing on the southeast side of the building were omitted.

      In 1950, Chi Omega Sorority gave UT the first set of Westminster Chimes to sound from the bell tower in honor of their 50^th anniversary on campus. The chimes ceased to function in 1980, and components were stolen in 1982. The Class of 1991 replaced the chimes as their senior gift.

      Although an elevator was installed in 1983 and a few other alterations were made to Ayres Hall, the building gradually deteriorated. Eventually the fourth floor was closed due to safety concerns.

      In 2008, Ayres Hall closed for a $23 million renovation project. The building reopened in 2010 with a north-side plaza, clock faces on the bell tower, updated flooring and fixtures, new energy efficient windows and lights, a new heating and cooling system, and additional elevators. The renovation maintained the original grandeur of the building and preserved many original construction materials. It also enhanced the building’s energy efficiency, earning a LEED Silver certification.

      Ayres Hall, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012, has a checkerboard brick pattern that has inspired many other UT checkerboard designs.

      South College
      South College, the oldest building on campus, was built in 1872 as a dormitory and campus armory for East Tennessee University. It housed 96 students in 24 rooms, with four to a room.

      In 1875, gaslights replaced the fireplaces and oil lamps. Telephones were installed in 1883. South College was converted from a dormitory into classrooms and meeting halls in 1890. The building got electricity and steam heating in 1908.

      South College was spared at least three times following demolition proposals. Although little remains of the original interior, the facade was restored in 1989 to resemble the style designed by architect A.C. Bruce.

      Over the course of its existence, South College has been home to the president’s office, portions of the Summer School of the South, the Law Department, German Department, Public Relations Department, Psychology Department, Physics Department, the University Extension, the UT Bookstore, the post office, the first campus radio station, the Science Alliance, and Ray’s Place restaurant.

   8. Hoskins Library

      James D. Hoskins Library, built in the Gothic style of Middle Age cathedrals, is known for its tower, vast block columns, marble floors, intersecting arches, and stenciled ceilings (done by novelist James Agee’s uncle, Hugh Tyler). The arched ceiling in the stairway and hall leading to the second-floor commons area is painted aqua and sprinkled with gold and silver stars and fleur-de-lis. Ornamental plaques on each section of the arches bear the name of a man famous in an academic discipline. Ceiling beams in the commons area are painted with decorative motifs using scrolling, foliation, and heraldic devices. The beams have inscriptions, and over the stacks entrance is a quotation from philosopher/writer Thomas Carlyle, “In books lies the soul of a whole past time.”

      BarberMcMurry Architects designed Hoskins Library, along with Alumni Memorial Building, Hesler Hall, Melrose Hall, and Dabney Hall. The architecture firm was co-founded by Charles Barber, whose father George Barber transformed Tyson House. The original portion of the library was completed in 1931 and named for UT President James D. Hoskins in 1950.

      Unfortunately, the Great Depression forced UT administrators to reduce their plan for a larger library and scrap plans for similar buildings. Hoskins Library was expanded in 1959.

   9. Cowan Cottage

      This one-and-a-half story cottage was originally built as part of the privately owned Cowan estate around 1879. James D. Cowan was a Knoxville merchant and leader in the city’s recovery after the Civil War. His Victorian-era estate occupied the site where nearby Strong Hall and Clement Hall (originally named Cumberland Hall) now stand. The cottage probably served as home to Cowan’s gardener, who came from England to oversee the estate’s vast gardens and greenhouses.

      In 1899, most of the block (including the Cowan mansion and servants’ quarters) was purchased by another Knoxville merchant, Daniel Briscoe Sr.

      UT purchased the entire property in 1920 and used the Cowan mansion as a women’s dorm until 1954 when it was razed to make way for what is now Clement Hall.

      The cottage was associated with UT’s military program until 1940 and then the Arnett family until 1985. Foster Arnett Sr. died in 1945, but his wife, Edna, remained in the house until 1985 and rented upstairs bedrooms to graduate students.

      Cowan Cottage was constructed in the Folk Victorian style with a cross-gabled roof, decorative wooden cornices, segmented arches on the windows, and gabled dormer windows on the upper floor. In 1923, the cottage was first listed as a separate address, and in 1925 it was listed at its current address 701 16th Street.

      From 1990–98 student organizations used the cottage, but it had been out of use until UT completed a renovation in 2017 as part of the Strong Hall construction project. The converted cottage is a one-story, 800-square-foot space with a vaulted ceiling. The handmade exterior brick laid in American Common Bond was restored from the original structure.

      Cowan Cottage is now used for classes, meetings, and occasional exhibitions. It is the university’s oldest Victorian-styled building and domestic residence.

   10. Strong Hall

       The current Strong Hall is not the original Sophronia Strong Hall that stood on this site. Until 2008, the original building was a residence hall and cafeteria named for Sophronia Strong, wife of a Knoxville physician and mother of 12 children. One of their sons, Benjamin Rush Strong, left money to UT for the construction of a women-only residence hall named in his mother’s honor. Strong Hall, built on the grounds of the former privately owned Cowan Estate, opened in 1926 with a capacity of 50 women. It was expanded in 1939 to house a few hundred women, with meeting spaces for sororities.

       For decades, residents of Strong Hall reported incidents involving a ghost known as Sophie. One particular room in Strong Hall was so filled with paranormal activity that it came to be called “Sophie’s Room.” It was rare that the student living in the room would last a whole term before asking to move.

       With UT in need of science classroom and lab space, most of the original Strong Hall was demolished in 2014 to make way for the current building. However, the new $114 million Strong Hall opened in 2017 with the original stone archways reinstalled on the west side facing Clement Hall. The 268,000-square-foot facility includes classrooms that can be converted into flexible teaching spaces.

       Strong Hall also houses the Forensic Anthropology Center, including the Bass Donated Skeletal Collection, and the Division of Biology.

   11. Baker Center

       The Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy is named for Tennessee’s late U.S. senator, presidential chief of staff, and ambassador to Japan. Baker was a 1949 alumnus of the College of Law.

       The Baker Center, originally housed in Hoskins Library, opened in 2003. The permanent building opened in 2008 with a dedication ceremony that included Howard Baker and former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor among the dignitaries.

       Senator Baker worked with UT to establish the Baker Center and remained involved until his death in 2014. Before his funeral in Huntsville, Tennessee, Baker’s body lay in state at the center and mourners lined the area to pay their respects.

       The Baker Center stresses the importance of research in developing public policies and divides its focus areas into energy and the environment, global security, and leadership and governance. The center also houses the Modern Political Archives, which hold more than 100 collections of political papers from prominent Tennessee leaders.

   12. Tyson Alumni Center

       Tyson Alumni Center is named for the Tyson family who owned this former private residence. UT continues to maintain the grave of their family dog, Bonita, as required in the deed.

       General Lawrence Tyson was a UT professor of military science, an attorney, a businessman, a brigadier general during World War I, a US senator, and a philanthropist.

       When Lawrence and Bettie Tyson purchased this home in 1895, it was a two-story Queen Anne-style house. In 1908, the Tysons commissioned architect George Barber to build a house on the site in the Colonial Classic style. The original house was torn down to the foundation, which was incorporated into the new house. The house was built of yellow brick with Corinthian columns, terraces, a third-story ballroom, and a porte cochere. There were also extensive formal gardens where the Tysons hosted amateur theatricals, dance recitals, and concerts.

       The Tysons' daughter, Isabella Tyson Gilpin, donated the home to St. John’s Episcopal Church for use as a student center, following Bettie’s death in 1934. UT purchased the property from St. John’s in 1954. Elaborate interior woodwork that remains in the home is still owned by the church.

       After the 1908 renovation, the home had 11 main rooms. The public rooms on the first floor, as well as the reception hall, entry, and stair hall, remain much as they were when the Tysons lived here. Other downstairs rooms function as staff offices and as the headquarters of the Student Alumni Association. Bedrooms on the second floor have been converted into more offices, while the third-floor ballroom and banquet room have undergone the most changes to accommodate office space.

       UT has extensively restored the home's interior and added handicapped-accessible features as well as central heat and air. In addition to several original fireplaces and most of the exterior, the house retains its original oak flooring, library cabinetry, staircase with newel post, and windows.

       Tyson House was home to UT’s Extension Offices for many years and was later occupied by the Art Department. It became Tyson Alumni Center in 1982 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

   13. Hodges Library

       John C. Hodges Library is an expansion of an earlier library building that stood at the same location from 1969 until its reconstruction began in 1984. The first building, named the John C. Hodges Undergraduate Library, was built for the arriving wave of Baby Boomer students who were born following World War II. However by the 1980s, growing collections and new information technologies were outpacing the library’s space and infrastructure, so construction began.

       The new John C. Hodges Library opened in 1987. The expansion essentially wrapped around the core of the older building and more than tripled the square footage.

       The library is named after the late head of the English Department John C. Hodges. He’s best known for producing the Harbrace College Handbook, a best-selling guide that for decades has influenced the teaching and learning of writing.

   14. Hess Hall and Melrose Avenue

       The entire Melrose Avenue/Melrose Place area was once part of the extensive grounds of the privately owned Melrose Estate, which extended to Cumberland Avenue. UT acquired the area during an expansion in the 1960s. (The building called Melrose Hall had been built in 1947.)

       Hess Hall stands on the site of the former Edward J. McMillan house, a 13-room residence UT acquired in a gift/purchase arrangement in 1956.

       Construction of Hess Hall also required razing the Melrose Art Center, a Tuscan-style mansion purchased by the Nicholson Art League in 1925 and converted into the art center. The mansion was built circa 1854 by marble magnate John J. Craig.

       Down the hill from this area, Lake Avenue got its name from an ornamental, man-made lake located there as part of the Melrose grounds.

       (Images of McMillan house and Melrose Art Center, courtesy of Thompson Photograph Collection, McClung Historical Collection)

   15. Hopecote

       Many architectural publications have featured this former private residence called Hopecote. It was designed by architect and UT alumnus John Fanz Staub for his aunt, Emma Hope, and her husband, Albert Hope. Completed in 1924 to resemble the cottage architecture of the rural Cotswold District of south-central England, Hopecote receives attention for its stuccoed white masonry shell, large casement windows, French doors, hand-hewn oak timbers salvaged from a 19th century barn at Admiral David Farragut's West Knox County birthplace, and its antique American furnishings. Hopecote received a House Beautiful magazine award in 1925.

       The dining room, a reproduction of the New Hampshire Room that has been displayed in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, has walls paneled in North Carolina pine. Notable items on display include a Hepplewhite sideboard and an Elias Ingraham/Seth Thomas clock.

       UT purchased Hopecote in 1976 through an agreement with Emma Hope and restored it after her death in 1977. John Fanz Staub served as chairman of the UT advisory committee that recommended using Hopecote as an entertainment facility and guesthouse. It opened to guests in 1979. Several well-known visitors, on campus for lectures or other events, have stayed here including Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, former Today show film critic Judith Crist, 1972 Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern, and former Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy. 

       Hopecote was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. Its slate-tile roof was repaired in 2015 and new copper gutters and downspouts were added.

   16. Brown Hall

       Professor Fred D. Brown was the founding director of the Minority Engineering Scholarship Program, which he launched in 1973 with 17 black students. Brown made it his mission to identify and successfully recruit the best students in Tennessee and neighboring states with a high aptitude for engineering studies. He was known for ensuring his students had the support they needed to succeed, even checking to make sure they were studying and walking them to class at times.

       Already a trailblazer when he became a UT professor, Brown was the first black teacher at Oak Ridge High School soon after it was integrated and the first black member of the Alcoa Board of Education.

       The UT program renamed the Office of Diversity Programs in 1999 still carries on Brown’s mission by increasing the number of underrepresented students including blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, Pacific Islanders, Alaskan Natives, and women.

       The residence hall named to honor the late Fred D. Brown opened in 2014 as a 250,000-square-foot facility with housing for 700 students.

   17. Clarence Brown Theatre

       Legendary film director Clarence Brown graduated from UT in 1910 with two engineering degrees before directing feature films with Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, and Elizabeth Taylor, among others. Although he never won an Academy Award for best director, Brown directed more than 50 films that received 38 nominations and nine wins.

       Clarence Brown gave donations to UT for construction of the 574-seat proscenium theatre and lab theatre building that bears his name, and he attended the dedication in 1970. The theatre houses extensive costume and properties collections, as well as light, sound, scene, and costume shops. The main stage floor is tongue and groove southern yellow pine (painted black) over wooden sleepers with a series of adjustable traps. The main stage can be used for performances by dance troupes as well.

       UT is also home to the Clarence Brown Theatre Company, which provides students with opportunities to study and take the stage with theatrical professionals.

   18. Carousel Theatre

       Likely the country’s oldest theatre in the round, the Carousel Theatre had a remarkable beginning. In 1951, the English Department’s drama section and a group of interested Knoxville community members started a new university–community activity, the Carousel Theatre. That first summer, there were four plays in a tent theatre-in-the-round, with actors using a nearby carriage house for a dressing room. Sigma Nu Fraternity, whose house was nearby, provided the use of its restrooms. At that time, the tent was in an area off South Seventeenth Street, between Yale and Rose Avenues. The area was principally devoted to fraternities, which had purchased former residences from their owners, and the tent was in a shady area.

       The first season was so successful that UT President C.E. Brehm was asked to provide a university loan of $35,000 to the theatre program so a permanent building could be constructed. UT made the loan, and the current octagonal structure was constructed in 1952 at a cost of $32,730. Its movable panels could be raised to allow open-air summer performances, giving it an advanced design at that time. The plays were so successful, the loan was repaid ahead of schedule.

       UT later renamed the structure the Ula Love Doughty Carousel Theatre in honor of a former Ziegfeld and Hollywood starlet who became a patron of the Carousel in her later years. Doughty attended UT briefly in the early 1920s, then got into show business, and was named Miss Ziegfeld Follies of 1936. She appeared in several movies in the 1930s, sharing screen time with Shirley Temple, Gene Autry, and Laurel and Hardy.

       Many celebrity performers have taken the stage at the Carousel over the decades including Anthony Quayle, Mary Martin, and UT alumni John Cullum and Carol Mayo Jenkins.

   19. The Rock

       Before the Rock became a beloved campus message board, a very small portion of it was visible in the lawn of Calvary Baptist Church, where Fraternity Park is now located. In 1966 after UT had acquired the land, the A.B. Long Company unearthed the 97.5-ton hunk of Knox dolomite while grading for roads and buildings. Later that year, UT began the process of selecting a name for it. The Daily Beacon reported that the Rock beat out other submissions including the Kissing Rock and the Fellowship Stone.

       The painting tradition began in 1980. At first, the Rock was cleaned regularly, but by 1982, the administration decided to stop repainting the Rock. From then forward, students were quick to replace obscene or offensive messages with new messages. When the 2001 UT Master Plan was presented to students, their only opposition was to the possibility of moving the Rock from its location at Pat Head Summitt Street and Volunteer Boulevard to make room for a new parking garage. In 2009, UT prepared for construction of the new Student Health Center by having the Rock moved across Volunteer Boulevard during a process that took 13 hours. The Rock was reopened at a dedication ceremony in 2009 when Chancellor Jimmy Cheek helped paint it. The summer heat was blamed six years later in 2015 when layers upon layers of paint slid off the Rock.

       The WUTK radio station is also named the Rock.

   20. Stokely Hall

       Before Stokely Hall was built, a different building occupied this site. Stokely Athletic Center, built in 1958, was the home of the men’s and women’s basketball teams until Thompson-Boling Arena was built in 1987. The athletic center also played host to concerts by Elvis Presley and Elton John, among others. The center closed in 2012 and was demolished in 2014, along with Gibbs Hall, to make way for Stokely Hall. The super-suite style building houses 684 students with a dining facility and convenience store.

       Named in honor of the Stokely family, the residence hall was dedicated in 2017. Family members have served on the board of trustees, the development council, the UT Foundation Board of Directors, the Chancellor’s Associates, the UT Athletics Board, and advisory boards in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Haslam College of Business.