The remaining five buildings, Clark, Manly, Garland, Tuomey and Barnard Halls, represent campus construction during the economic recovery that followed the end of the Reconstruction era.

[1] The construction of Manly, Clark, Garland, and other buildings was financed by the sale of a large portion of 46,800 acres (189 km2) of land given by the United States Congress to the University as repayment "for the fiery ruin brought by Federal troops in 1865.

Initially used as a guest house for visitors and professors and as a dining hall for students, it was converted to use as a faculty residence in 1847.

Ill health forced him to resign as president and the trustees allowed the Gorgas family to move into the house, which also contained the campus post office and student hospital.

[10] As tensions between the North and South escalated, the request for the transition came from the university president of the time, Landon Cabell Garland.

[3] Ironically, the Little Round House, despite its military associations, was one of the few structures that remained after Federal troops burned the campus.

Constructed from 1867 to 1868 out of salvaged bricks from campus buildings destroyed in the war,[10] the four-story brick structure was built with a Gothic Revival arcade on the ground floor, end facades in the Gothic Revival style with a crenelated roof, and cast iron galleries on the central upper floors.

Built in 1884, the Gothic Revival-style Clark Hall was constructed on the site of the old Lyceum, destroyed during the Civil War.

Named for Willis G. Clark, a university trustee, Clark Hall was originally designed as an all-purpose building with a library, reading rooms, chapel, and a large public meeting room,[8][9] which served as "the great public hall of the University.

[8][9] Clark Hall contains the main office space for the College of Arts and Sciences, as well as a dance studio (currently overseen by Cornelius Carter).

[8][9] The three-story Garland Hall is another Gothic Revival–style building on campus, built in 1887[12] to house a dormitory and the first incarnation of the Alabama Museum of Natural History.

Built as a laboratory for the Department of Chemistry, it was named in honor of Michael Tuomey, state geologist and professor.

Manly was a staunch defender of slavery and remained loyal to the Confederacy, giving the prayer at the inauguration of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.