1959
Dormitory

The dorm featured the pumpkin-colored brick and design matching other buildings on the UAMS campus (ACME Denton Blend 100 Burnt Pumpkin). It opened in July 1959 to students in all of the UAMS programs offered at the time, including medicine, nursing, pharmacy, medical technology and X-ray technology, along with graduate students and medical interns and residents. The dorm and adjacent student union offered a meeting place as well as living quarters, with a coffee shop, game room, music room and space for special events.

The dorm was built to accommodate 315 single students and 95 married couples with a mix of traditional dormitory-style rooms and efficiency apartments. Until 1975, first-year students were required to live in the dorm.

For many summers while students were away, dorm rooms were rented to the public. The temporary occupants included architects, police officers, all-star high school football players, “and, of course insurance salesmen,” according to a 1960 story in the Arkansas Democrat. The rooms were rented to help pay off the federal loan that funded dorm construction.

This building added 117,746 square feet to education. It was imploded in 2006 to make way for a hospital expansion.

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Dormitory