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Academic Building One (AB1)
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Academic Building One
1803 Avenue I ID# 0039
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Feb. 2, 1967 Opened
c.1985 Renamed AB1
 
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Academic Building One (AB1) is a three-story structure located in the east-central part of campus.

During the late-1960s the need for classroom space pushed the borders of the university eastward and this building, then known as the Math and Foreign Languages Building, as well as the Business Administration Building and the university's third library became the first permanent structures built east of Avenue I.

By the 1980s, with the math and foreign languages departments housed elsewhere, this and other buildings used for various departments and programs were rechristened as generic academic buildings (such as AB2 and AB3). Once home to the Political Science and Sociology departments, the facility is now mostly given over to the Department of Computer Science and SHSU Computer Services.

Academic Building One

Sam Houston State Teachers College extended only to Avenue I in the 1950s.  That’s the eastern edge of the Frels Apartment Building facing the camera; due north is the future site of the Lowman Student Center.

Academic Building One Starting in 1967, the Business Administration Building, Newton Gresham Library and Academic Building One became the first structures built east of Avenue I.
Academic Building One

The building was repurposed as an “Academic Building” in the 1980s.

Academic Building One

The dedication plaque inside the southern interest identifies the original usage of the building: mathematics and foreign languages.

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