Old conference Center photos

[ULEverywhere]

Does anyone have any photos of conference center when it used to be a hotel?

Or any information at all? Just really curious of the history of the building i'm living in.

[awadelewis]

Building was constructed in the early 1960s as a privately operated girls dormitory. University purchased the building in the late 60's and used it for conferences and visitor housing up to the mid-1980s. The top floor was converted into office and lab space for CACS and the Computer Science department in 1984 with teaching labs in the area now used by Athlete Tutoring. CACS and CMPS moved out in 2004 when we opened our new building. Building was remodeled in stages from 2005 to 2009.

[ULEverywhere]

Thanks for the info!

[USLJim]

Does anyone have any photos of conference center when it used to be a hotel?

Or any information at all? Just really curious of the history of the building i'm living in.

It was originally calle Agnes Edwards and it housed women. It was felt that pretty rich girls could only live there. It also housed the Soroities, before they were allowed to have a house off campus.
It had a indoor pool, caferteria for the elite. It was a place to meet good looking women.
GEAUX CAJUNS

[Big Buds]

It was originally calle Agnes Edwards and it housed women. It was felt that pretty rich girls could only live there. It also housed the Soroities, before they were allowed to have a house off campus.
It had a indoor pool, caferteria for the elite. It was a place to meet good looking women.
GEAUX CAJUNS

I love a place that has good looking women! I must love UL! Disregard my blog post Turb...it was a mistake.

[ULEverywhere]

It was originally calle Agnes Edwards and it housed women. It was felt that pretty rich girls could only live there. It also housed the Soroities, before they were allowed to have a house off campus.
It had a indoor pool, caferteria for the elite. It was a place to meet good looking women.
GEAUX CAJUNS

Sounds like heaven.

[cajunhawk]

Until you realize what it has become these days. The smells that used to enter my nose every time I was called to go out there at 2 in the morning were just awful. I have yet to see it since the remodeling, but I cannot picture it as a high end women's dormitory with nightly underwear pillow fights in the halls. All I can remember is the awful things I had to clean up because the football players were animals.

[awadelewis]

Until you realize what it has become these days. The smells that used to enter my nose every time I was called to go out there at 2 in the morning were just awful. I have yet to see it since the remodeling, but I cannot picture it as a high end women's dormitory with nightly underwear pillow fights in the halls. All I can remember is the awful things I had to clean up because the football players were animals.

It was an interesting mix of people. Us computer science geeks had our office and labs on the 4th floor, grad student housing on the 3rd floor, and football & basketball players on the 2nd floor. For some odd reason, the football players had this fascination with beating the crap out of the elevator. It was nice for the computer science grad students as CACS put in Wi-Fi couple of years before UCS installed wireless across campus. There was competition amongst the grad students to get the rooms on the 3rd floor with the best signal.

[Big Buds]

Any chance we can see some old conference center photos?

[Boomer]

Any chance we can see some old conference center photos?

Don't have any ---but had agirlfriend there ---had training tables there---My wife worked with the School of Life Insurance Marketing that had students from all across the USA---and you ask who was Agnes Edwards????

[BeauCajun]

---My wife worked with the School of Life Insurance Marketing that had students from all across the USA---

Boomer, little known fact. My wife worked for your wife at the School of Life Insurance Marketing back in 1977 - 78 I think. Ask the boss if she remembers.

[cliveweiss]

Cool! I never thought the building has such history and was made a conference center years way back. This type of building should be preserved.

[Hammer58]

It was originally calle Agnes Edwards and it housed women. It was felt that pretty rich girls could only live there. It also housed the Soroities, before they were allowed to have a house off campus.
It had a indoor pool, caferteria for the elite. It was a place to meet good looking women.
GEAUX CAJUNS

I remember the pool. After graduation when working offshore in drilling I had to take a water survival every year or so. McMillan used to teach water survival courses at the pool before they moved out by the airport lake.

[raoul]

Don't have any ---but had agirlfriend there ---had training tables there---My wife worked with the School of Life Insurance Marketing that had students from all across the USA---and you ask who was Agnes Edwards????

The Dean of Women BEFORE Agnes Roth. Even before Boomer.

[billbeck451]

I took scuba in that pool in the 80's