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University of Texas at Arlington (Arlington College, North Texas Agricultural College)

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1895 established. 701 S. Nedderman Dr.

Founded as Arlington College, a private school, in 1895, the future university became a state school, North Texas Agricultural College, in 1917. In 1965 it was transferred from the Texas A&M system to the University of Texas (UT) system and renamed the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). It now has the second largest student enrollment in the UT system and is the fifth largest public university in Texas. An aggressive building program during the tenure of president Wendell H. Nedderman between 1972 and 1992 expanded the historic four-block campus core between W. 1st, S. West, W 3rd, and S. Yeates streets in all directions. As on Abram Street (see AW2) in downtown Arlington several blocks north, it is the big-scaled, brick-faced, planar architecture of Brutalism that has shaped the campus, which sprawls over former town blocks to encompass 420 acres of buildings and parking lots.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "University of Texas at Arlington (Arlington College, North Texas Agricultural College)", [Arlington, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-AW3.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 225-225.

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