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Aerial View — UAMS Medical Center

Aerial view of the University of Arkansas Medical Center

The Arkansas State Hospital, then called the State Mental Asylum, can be seen in the photo above as the white buildings to the right of the hospital. The X-shaped building in the background was Shuffield Hall, often referred to as the “spider building,” which provided clinical space for patients. 

It was torn down to build the John L. McClellan Veterans Hospital in the late 1970s. Interstate 630 also would be built in the 1970s in the area near the top of the photo. The Boiler Plant is visible to the left, University Hospital in the middle, the Education Building I is to the right of the Hospital.

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