Temple Court, built on land originally owned by Oliver P. Temple, opened as an apartment building in 1908. UT acquired the property in 1928 by purchase from Weston M. Fulton. The property, which cost $52,500, was described by Fulton as “an apartment building, modern in every respect, and consists of six apartments of six rooms each. Vapor steam heat, unusually large rooms, and plenty of storage space in the basement makes [sic] it very popular. It is on a lot sixty feet on Temple Avenue running back 145 feet, with garages for three cars on the rear of the lot.”
UT first used Temple Court as a women’s dormitory. An April 1938 fire damaged the property (with greatest damage to eight rooms). The fire started on the first floor and went to the third. The fire chief indicated that the fire was caused by the wind gathering around the steam pipes. The facility was placed back into service as a men’s dormitory and then was returned to use as a women’s dormitory in 1940.
In summer 1964 the first floor of the building was modified for use by the Guidance-Counseling Center—which relocated to the Fulton Residence next door in 1975 when a student health services building replaced the Weston Fulton Memorial Infirmary—and faculty offices were moved to Temple Court from the Ayres Annex to allow creation of green space by razing the prefab structures left over from World War II.
Temple Court was razed in 2012 to allow construction of the new student union.