Franklin Terrace is an example of Spanish Eclectic Architecture. This apartment house was built on the site of T. C. Williams Sr.’s home. A 1934 advertisement for the building describes the availability of “Two Rooms, Kitchenette and Bath, to Five Rooms and Bath” and mentions the first floor’s “Beautiful Parlors and Lounge, Tea Room and complete dining facilities.” It was the last residential building to be constructed on the 800 block of West Franklin Street, well known for its diverse and daring architecture.

Franklin Terrace is the home of Communication Arts and has been recently renovated.

Facilities include six well lit spacious studios with top floor views of the city. Two studios are mixed media studios equipped with drafting/drawing tables, two are drawing/painting and mixed media studios equipped with easels, model stand and lights. A new Digital Studio with15 seat G5 Mac lab is equipped with scanners, printer and light tables. In the Honors studio students have 24 hour access to their individual workstations and computer. The large capacity state of the art multimedia lecture room has comfortable seating and work tables.

The Digital Studio has the following:

Hardware:

15 G5 computers
15 Wacom tablets/pens
2 Hewlett Packard scanners
1 HP Laser printer
3 card readers
1 data projector

Software:

Explorer
Safari
Photoshop CS
Illustrator CS
InDesign CS
Adobe Go Live
iTunes
Acrobat 6
Corel Painter 8
Flash MX
Fireworks MX
Dreamweaver MX
Freehand MX
Microsoft Office
    - Word
    - Excel
    - Powerpoint