An aerial photo from the mid-1920s shows the southern end of the quadrangle.
The newly built Estill Library at the end of the quadrangle opposite the Austin College Building.
Since the 1970s, the Estill Building has housed numerous classrooms and offices. It was closed for restoration during the late 1990s; when reopened, students and visitors were welcomed with the school seal on the ground floor.
 
 
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Estill Building
 
By the 1920s, the university's twenty-year-old Peabody Library was overcrowded and requests from the administration to the legislature for a new building were met somewhat cautiously. There was, then, just cause for a campus celebration when the cornerstone to the new, three-story library was laid in 1928. Two years later the new structure opened at a cost of $225,000 and named the Estill Library in grateful acknowledgement to the man who fought for its creation.

The Estill Library is the only building to feature names carved around its outer walls, these being the names of American and European authors "chosen by faculty members who were asked to submit names which they favored for their literary significance [73]." From east to west are Cervantes, Homer, Tolstoi, Hugo, Poe, Goethe, Virgil, and Shakespeare, with scripture from the Book of John above the north entrance: "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall me you free."

Since the opening of the Newton Gresham Library at the end of the 1960s, numerous classrooms and offices have made their home in the Estill Building. During the 1990s, the interior went through extensive remodeling and today is home to various administrative offices.

The old Greek Amphitheatre was once located south of this building.
 
 
1903 University Avenue
 
 
Namesake
Harry F. Estill
 
 
1929 - Constructed
1930 - Renamed
1996-97 - Renovated
 
 
Vision Realized, Mary Estill, 1970