Red Bricks

Red Bricks

1935

Technala (student yearbook)

The University of Montevallo's red brick streets are not as new as some people might think. The impetus for this change came from the Olmsted Brothers, a landscape architect firm, that recommended brick streets in 1930 as a way to unify the entire campus. Construction began in the 1930s under the aegis of the federally funded Works Progress Administration (WPA). This photographic collage from the student yearbook in 1935 shows workers paving streets and laying the now iconic red brick sidewalks.