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University of North Texas (North Texas Normal College)

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1890 established. 1155 Union Circle.

The University of North Texas (UNT), the sixth largest public university in Texas, occupies an 875-acre campus cobbled together from residential blocks on Denton’s west side. The university began on a two-block site as a private teacher-training college in 1890 and became a state-supported normal school in 1901, obtaining its present name in 1988. Its current configuration is based on a master plan of 1967 by Houston architects Caudill Rowlett Scott that pedestrianized the inner campus core and cleared block after block of neighborhood housing for surface parking lots. In the 1920s, the university constructed brick-faced buildings decorated with neo-Georgian architectural detail, a practice that continued until the mid-1960s. The twenty-first-century Postmodern revival of neo-Georgian architecture (Building B of the Life Sciences complex of 2011 by the Dallas office of Perkins + Will) marks this discouraging reversion.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "University of North Texas (North Texas Normal College)", [Denton, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-DD13.

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, 236-236.

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