BAND BUILDING
Formerly the Old College Gymnasium Building, the 12,974-square-foot Band Building was constructed in 1949 by the Department of Industrial Arts at a cost of $87,570.93. The building was renovated in 1970. In 1976, the music department moved into the F.D. Hall Music Center Fine Arts Building, named for Dr. Frederick Douglass Hall, a renowned musician and faculty member from 1921–27. Hall revised the college’s alma mater, “Jackson Fair,” in 1921.
21 SCHOOL OF EDUCATION BUILDING
Formerly housed in the campus’ old Army barracks, the building is named for Joseph H. Jackson, a former Jackson State University quarterback who was inducted into the JSU Sports Hall of Fame in 1980. In 1987, Jackson donated $200,000, then the largest single donation, toward the establishment of an endowed chair in philosophy and social ethics. Also known as the SEB, the 66,350-square-foot, three-story brick building was built in 1973 at a cost of $1.5 million. It contains 40 classrooms, faculty and department offices, two lecture rooms, a seminar room and facilities for the Lottie W. Thornton Early Childhood Center.
CAMPBELL COLLEGE
Completed in 1947 for $213,750, Green Hall was formerly known as the Sherman Lawrence Green Administration Building owned by Campbell College, an African Methodist Episcopal school that relocated from Vicksburg, Miss., to across the street from Jackson College. Later, Green Hall was sold and used by Jackson College to house Student Affairs until it was demolished in 2004. Campbell College Suites, which officially opened in spring 2007, has been named in honor of the historic school.
Sources: Jackson State University archives, H.T. Sampson Library; History of Jackson State University: The First 100 Years, 1877–1977 by Dr. Lelia Gaston Rhodes