1950-1959

Four women's dormitories were finished in 1950: Baker-Huger, Randolph, Evangeline and Bonin halls, all designed by the architect A. Hays Town. They opened a building boom. From the 1950s through the 1970s the main campus grew to about 125 acres, adding Dupre Library, Griffin Hall, Billeaud Hall, Madison Hall, Wharton, Angelle and Fletcher. Athletic facilities were moved off the main campus to University Commons over the same years. The halls predate the 1954 admission of Black students, and they housed women only.

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

• 1930-1939 — steps away
• 1960-1969 — steps away
• 1898-1899 (ULL Walk of Honor) — steps away
• 1900-1909 — steps away