1930-1939

By the 1930s the campus had grown to about 60 acres, reaching out to St. Mary Street and McKinley Street. Then, in 1936, the school bought the Whittington Farm, roughly 175 acres south of the main campus along Johnston Street. That tract later became University Commons, and athletic facilities moved there from the main campus during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. The main campus itself kept spreading too, to about 125 acres by the end of that building boom.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Vermilionville — 1.3 mi
  A living-history village of about 23 acres on Bayou Vermilion in Lafayette, opened in 1990 to interpret the Native peoples, Acadians, Creoles and people of African descent of the Attakapas region.
• Cypress Island Preserve at Lake Martin — 7.1 mi
  Nearly 10,000 acres of bottomland hardwood and cypress-tupelo swamp at the south end of Lake Martin, owned by The Nature Conservancy, with a boardwalk and a rookery of egrets, spoonbills and alligators.
• Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site — 13 mi
  A bayou-side state site on former Attakapas hunting ground, with a raised Creole cottage of about 1815, a reproduction 1800 farmstead and its slave quarters, and the story behind Longfellow's Evangeline.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 13 mi
  The Mother Church of the Acadians, founded in 1765 on St. Martin Square in St. Martinville, with a late 1870s Lourdes grotto and, a block away, the Evangeline Oak on Bayou Teche.

More markers nearby

• 1950-1959 — steps away
• 1898-1899 (ULL Walk of Honor) — steps away
• 1900-1909 — steps away
• 1960-1969 — steps away