Mary Harmon Bryant Hall is the storage, teaching, and research center for most of UA's scientific collections, and houses the W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library.
The building was completed in 1997 following construction of the first two floors in 1994 and the third and fourth floors in 1996. Formerly known as the Scientific Collections Facility, the building was renamed to honor Mary Harmon Bryant, wife of legendary Crimson Tide football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant, in 2001.
The building's first floor, dedicated to energy and minerals, contains hundreds of rocks and fossils from the state of Alabama. On the second floor is the Hoole Library and its beautiful stained-glass window, pictured here, that journeyed from Carmichael Hall to Gorgas Library and finally to Mary Harmon Bryant Hall.
The third and fourth floors contain natural history collections, a center for biodiversity and systematics, laboratories, photographic collections, and a darkroom.
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall is building 113 on the campus map.
