Little Abbeville
As the UL campus expanded during the World War II years, part of it became known as “Little Abbeville.”
The name came about after the area behind McNaspy Stadium near East Lewis Street began to be developed with World War II surplus “temporary buildings.” Until then, all of the academic buildings were across St. Mary on the quadrangle and on Hebrard Boulevard, and these new buildings at the back of the campus, the students said, were “halfway to Abbeville.”
Math and chemistry students spent time in Little Abbeville. Journalism courses were taught in ELB III. ELB stood for “Engineering Laboratory Building,” as that was their original use on campus.
Some of the temporary classroom buildings fell in 1968, when they were taken down and replaced by H.L. Griffin Hall. The last of the six former barracks buildings were demolished in 1977.
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Jim Bradshaw
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