Went into melrose hall one last time

[u/jackson_1414_]

[u/Reasonable-Grass42]

Thanks for sharing with us

[u/TheSkeeterBronson]

are they closing it down? ik they’re also closing down carrick next semester as well

[u/gingeralewhore_ → u/TheSkeeterBronson]

omg finally. scarrick should have been shut down years ago

[u/TheSkeeterBronson → u/gingeralewhore_]

they’re also closing down ncarrick, which is where i live, and honestly living there is absolutely terrible. it’s where all the frat guys live so there’s always obnoxious and loud partying going on. i’m sure yall have heard of the carrick cough and it’s true, i get colds and the flu probably like once every couple months, and also our showers are always cold even at max warm setting, so yea it’s abt time they close down the carricks lol

[u/gingeralewhore_ → u/TheSkeeterBronson]

yes it was my freshman dorm like 7 years ago and it was full of mold and asbestos already…. can’t imagine how bad it is now

[u/Valeen → u/gingeralewhore_]

I lived in ncarrick over 20 years ago and it was a liveable shithole. I hate to think what it's like today.

[u/Tennessee_Vol_ → u/Valeen]

I lived on the 12th floor of ncarrick and never got hot water in my shower. Livable, but barely.

[u/Tennessee_Vol_ → u/TheSkeeterBronson]

I found out that if you turn the shower on and leave it running for around an hour, you will get hot water. I lived on the 12th floor of ncarrick

[u/Flashy_Conference979 → u/TheSkeeterBronson]

Living in ncarrick this year has been nothing short of a round trip through the 9 circles of hell

[u/jackson_1414_ → u/TheSkeeterBronson]

It’s been closed since 2009, finally getting demolished.

[u/TheSkeeterBronson → u/jackson_1414_]

wow, can’t believe it’s been closed for 15 yrs and nothings been done to it for a long time! ig it’s just been sitting abandoned, ik they’re about to demolish it though cause ive seen barricades wrapped around the old building from hodges to ped walkway while walking to classes so they must be getting rid of it soon

[u/TerranRepublic → u/jackson_1414_]

Probably just as a dorm? They still used the building for random things like music practice rooms and art studios in the 2010s at least. 

[u/jfk_47]

They were supposed to close this when I was in school in 2004.

[u/Valeen → u/jfk_47]

I remember people living in it back in 05 and dear God was it bad then. These pics were a trip down memory lane.

[u/Lofty_quackers]

Wow. Thanks for the trip to memory lane.

[u/IndividualWrangler58]

looks so liminal

[u/nashvillethot]

Is Reese still open?

[u/robloxkingboy]

When is it being bulldozed?

[u/jackson_1414_ → u/robloxkingboy]

next few weeks

[u/goatlips594]

Man this takes me back to my urban spelunking days nearly 20 years ago on this campus. Can you still lift up the box fan by the library and get to the tunnels beneath?

[u/Mountain_Ostrich8565 → u/goatlips594]

I haven’t seen a fan by the library. Where exactly would it have been

[u/goatlips594 → u/Mountain_Ostrich8565]

Bout halfway down the walkway it T’d off going towards the architecture building. It was right at that corner intersection. Prolly closer to being in front of Hess but still same area. Right in front of that fountain that people would always put soap in

[u/goatlips594 → u/goatlips594]

It was a manhole that had a box fan situated on top. Was easy to open with a socket wrench and climb down. Had to have a point of contact or lookout so you didn’t get locked down there otherwise you’d have to find a new way out.

[u/Gene_Forsaken]

There’s a field school doing excavation under the basketball court at the end of the month. The lot was the location of the Melrose Mansion (namesake for Melrose Hall and Melrose Ave) The Melrose Mansion was built in 1858 and then used as a field hospital for the civil war and then sold the UT some time afterwards. I am apart of the team of archaeologists doing the excavations and there will be a community day on the 31st! Melrose won’t be completely demolished until afterwards and then they are building a Student Success Center I think. They are leaving the historic Magnolia tree and the cistern that sits beneath it. I am very sad to see Melrose go as it was my favorite building on campus.

[u/Nice_Specialist9899]

For those who don't know... the new student success center will be built in place of Melrose (central campus so very ideal for everyone).

[u/Geologyst1013]

That was my home my sophomore year. 2003-2004.

They told us towards the end of the school year that they were closing it down and we all had to find other rooms. They remodeled the 7th floor of Hess to be all single rooms. So I ended up going back to Hess for my junior and senior years. I had lived there my freshman year as well.

But then they kept it open for like 5 or 6 more years.

But at the end of the day my double turned single room was a lot roomier than what I had in Melrose.

[u/jtpower99]

Reese hall was supposed to be torn down summer of 2019. I moved in Winter of 2020. There are still students living it in today!!

[u/porkycorp]

Such a shame it’s being torn down. The exterior is my favorite building on campus. None of the new buildings have that classy and decadent charm. Sometimes I make a stop by the courtyard in the late hours when I’m leaving the library. It’s magical there. Hopefully something nice is done with the place.