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The building features a lounge and reception area with a kitchen, interview rooms, meeting rooms, a covered porch, a screening room, and work space for the Admissions Office staff. Scheduled visitors are welcomed with a reserved parking space and enter through a manicured knot garden planted with herbs and aromatics. Trustees [[Billy Hulsey]] and [[James T. Stephens]] led a private fund-raising campaign for the $3.4 million facility. The center was designed by [[Bobby McAlpine]] of McAlpine Tankersley Architecture Inc. with landscape design by [[Nimrod Long & Associates]]. [[JohnsonKreis Construction]] was the general contractor. | The building features a lounge and reception area with a kitchen, interview rooms, meeting rooms, a covered porch, a screening room, and work space for the Admissions Office staff. Scheduled visitors are welcomed with a reserved parking space and enter through a manicured knot garden planted with herbs and aromatics. Trustees [[Billy Hulsey]] and [[James T. Stephens]] led a private fund-raising campaign for the $3.4 million facility. The center was designed by [[Bobby McAlpine]] of McAlpine Tankersley Architecture Inc. with landscape design by [[Nimrod Long & Associates]]. [[JohnsonKreis Construction]] was the general contractor. | ||
A fiberglass statue from the "[[Vulcans on Parade]]" series is installed outside the Welcome Center. | A painted fiberglass statue entitled "Forward Ever!" from the "[[Vulcans on Parade]]" series is installed outside the Welcome Center. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 17:40, 25 January 2023
The Birmingham-Southern College Admission Welcome Center, also called Hulsey Hall, is a 9,800 square-foot building constructed in 2007 near the Bruno Drive entrance to Birmingham-Southern College to serve as a "front door" for visitors and prospective students visiting the campus.
The building features a lounge and reception area with a kitchen, interview rooms, meeting rooms, a covered porch, a screening room, and work space for the Admissions Office staff. Scheduled visitors are welcomed with a reserved parking space and enter through a manicured knot garden planted with herbs and aromatics. Trustees Billy Hulsey and James T. Stephens led a private fund-raising campaign for the $3.4 million facility. The center was designed by Bobby McAlpine of McAlpine Tankersley Architecture Inc. with landscape design by Nimrod Long & Associates. JohnsonKreis Construction was the general contractor.
A painted fiberglass statue entitled "Forward Ever!" from the "Vulcans on Parade" series is installed outside the Welcome Center.
References
- Wagnon, Bill (Fall 2007) "Admission Welcome Center: Birmingham-Southern opens new ‘front door’ to campus" Birmingham-Southern College Community News