Parks Hall

Parks Hall was built in 1911 for about $35,000. The building was originally called “The New Agricultural and Science Building.” At the 1913 commencement ceremony Colonel Atkinson announced the new building would be called Parks Hall after college president Marvin Parks.

Parks Hall. This hall, completed in 1911, consists of three stories and a basement. Its splendid architectural outlines, its ornaments of stone, and its stately Corinthian columns, combine to make this building an object of attractiveness and admiration. The hall is devoted largely to the study of the sciences, having classrooms, lecture rooms, and laboratories, for work in Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Zoology, Botany, Agriculture, Floriculture and Horticulture.

Georgia State College For Women Catalog 1922-1924

By the 1950s Parks Hall housed mainly administrative offices including the Dean of Instruction, the Registrar, the Dean of Women, and Student Aid. The Student Union was located in the basement until it was moved to the basement of Atkinson in the late 1950s.


Parks Hall before 1925 (Main Building tower behind Parks)

Parks Hall continues to serve as the administrative center of campus. It houses offices including the President, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Vice President for Business & Finance, and Admissions.

Sources Used:

A Centennial History of Georgia College by William Ivy Hair with James C. Bonner, Edward B. Dawson, and Robert J. Wilson III.

Georgia Normal & Industrial College Catalogs

Georgia State College for Women Catalogs

Georgia College Catalogs

Photograph from:

Spectrum 1926



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