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Linda Facilities Planning and Construction Division: Construction and Planning Facilities Office of the Vice President for Business Affairs Business for President Vice the of Office Historic Preservation Programs Preservation Historic Abdellatif Qamhaieh, Ph.D. Student Ph.D. Qamhaieh, Abdellatif Jenn Garrett, Master of Interior Design Student Design Interior of Master Garrett, Jenn Professor Susan Tate, AIA Tate, Susan Professor College of Design, Construction and Planning: and Construction Design, of College Matching support was provided by the University of Florida of University the by provided was support Matching 2009 products constitute endorsement or recommendation by the Florida Department of State. of Department Florida the by recommendation or endorsement constitute products views and opinions of the Florida Department of State, nor does the mention of trade names or commercial commercial or names trade of mention the does nor State, of Department Florida the of opinions and views 2009 the Florida Historical Commission. 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Historical Florida the , assisted by by assisted , Resources, Historical of Division Preservation, Florida Department of State of Department Florida preservation grant assistance provided by the Bureau of Historic Historic of Bureau the by provided assistance grant preservation This project has been funded in part with historic historic with part in funded been has project This ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Post-World War II The University of Florida The Campus After the The Early Campus: Campus 1944-1956 Historic Campus Florida Boom 1925-1944 University Architect: The University of Florida Historic Campus 1905-1925 belongs not only to its community and alumni, but University Architect: Guy Chandler Fulton Guy Fulton, who succeeded Rudolph Weaver to the universal heritage of institutions of higher University Architect: Rudolph Weaver as University Architect, directed a dramatic period learning. In dramatic contrast to its opening in William Augustus Edwards In 1925 the University named Rudolph of growth as Veterans supported by the GI Bill 1906 with two unfinished buildings and 102 stu- The Florida Legislature in 1905 adopted Weaver head of the new School of Architecture and flooded the campus and the University of Florida dents, the University of Florida entered the 21st the Buckman Act that consolidated the system of the second University Architect. Weaver’s under- became coeducational. The surge from 600 stu- century as one of the nation’s largest public, land- higher education and led to the establishment of standing of the importance of continuity was a dents during wartime to 10,000 in 1948 de- grant research institutions and one of the most the University of Florida in Gainesville. The young significant contribution to the campus image. manded new space for administration, student comprehensive universities in the United States, state of Florida was seeking an architectural im- Construction was constrained by the collapse of services, classrooms and housing. Remarkably, encompassing virtually all recognized academic age for its flagship university that would compare the Florida Boom and the stock market crash of Fulton inaugurated an era of campus architecture and professional disciplines. Tracing its roots to a favorably with respected institutions. Architect 1929, but funding through government programs that was compatible yet transitional to the new parent institution founded in 1853, the University William Edwards presented a Collegiate Gothic promoted an increase in craftsmanship and art modern ideals. The foundation was established for of Florida marks 2003 as its sesquicentennial and plan that fulfilled that association. Edwards would in architecture. Dauer Hall, the Mucozo Tower of the cohesiveness and harmony that characterize 2006 as the Centennial of the Historic Campus. design the buildings that formed the core of the Sledd Hall, and Leigh Hall illustrate this evolution the campus today. The University of Florida was listed on the National University mission, culminating in the Library and in the campus Collegiate Gothic. Register of Historic Places in 1989. the focal point University Auditorium. Bryan Hall Campus in 1916 Thomas Hall Dauer Hall 1 Thomas Hall* 2 Buckman Hall* 3 Sledd Hall* 4 Fletcher Hall* 5 Murphree Hall* UNIVERSITY AVENUE * 35 6 Women’s Gym/Ustler Hall 13 14 7 Florida Pool 4 8 Florida Field 9 Florida Gym* 38 5 1 15 10 Newell Hall* 2 Griffin-Floyd Hall* 17 11 3 12 Rolfs Hall* 20 19 13 Keene-Flint Hall* 6 * 7 14 Anderson Hall 16 15 Bryan Hall* 25 * 8 11 UNION ROAD 16 Peabody Hall 23 21 17 Smathers Library East* 9 12 18 28 * 18 University Auditorium 10 19 Plaza of the Americas* 20 Leigh Hall* 34 36 21 Walker Hall* 22 University Police Dept.* STADIUM ROAD 23 The Infirmary* * 33 24 Norman Hall 27 25 Dauer Hall* 26 Dairy Science Bldg. 30 27 Weil Hall* 26 28 Tigert Hall* 29 Mallory/Yulee/Reid* 30 Tolbert 24 31 Broward Hall 29 32 McCarty Hall 32 * 33 The Hub 37 31 STREET 13TH * 34 Century Tower DRIVE NEWELL 35 Matherly Hall* 36 Carleton Auditorium* 37 Flavet Field 38 President’s Home * National Register of Historic Places MUSEUM ROAD 22 LEGEND Edwards Era Weaver Era GALE LEMERAND DRIVE Fulton Era National Register District THE EARLY CAMPUS: 1905-1925 THE POST-WORLD WAR II CAMPUS For the opening in Fall Semester of 1906, Thomas (1) And Buckman (2) Halls served all university functions including classrooms, dormitories, dining 1944-1956 hall, and administration. The restrained gothic details of these buildings feature Enrollment exploded to a motif above the entries known as the “anguished scholar.” Between Buckman 10,000 in 1948 and the need and Thomas, the addition of Sledd Hall (3) in 1929 and the north extension for an Administration Building of Fletcher Hall (4) in 1939 created courtyards that feature shaded walks and was urgent. Completed in 1951, details ranging from students and officials to sea life and snails. The Mucozo Tower Tigert Hall (28) launched a new era in campus architecture courtyard entrance features sculpture that depicts the friendship of 16th century that was both progressive and Spanish explorer Juan Ortiz with Timucua Chief Mucozo. Murphree Hall (5) compatible with its Collegiate completed the complex in 1939. In 2004 the Yardley Courtyard Fountain marked Gothic context. The University the south entrance to the dormitory complex. Seal in the grid of the tower en- trance and plaques representing Tigert Hall Athletic and military drill fields William Edwards and expanded by Rudolph Weaver, the building incorporates an The 1948 expansion continued this concept. The Mechanical Engineering Build- the University’s colleges identify were considered from the earliest plan ing, now Walker Hall (21) and home of the Department of Mathematics, was extension by Guy Fulton after World War II that is both compatible and a statement the seat of the University Administration. The newly coeducational University for the land grant university. The team of its own time with plaques in Moderne detail. This concept of compatibility built in 1927 adjacent to the 1924 name “Gators” may have originated opened Mallory/Yulee/Reid (29) as its first permanent women dormitories continues with the adjacent Gerson Hall completed in 2004. The College of Law is Benton Hall College of Engineer- in 1950, with such features as sewing rooms, hairdressing rooms and separate as early as 1907 and became official now located west of the campus; a Native-American mound near the Holland Law ing, which was demolished when in 1911. Funding to complete the dining facilities from the men on campus. The distance between the Tolbert (30) Center is noted by a historical marker, and archaeologists have found evidence of Grinter Hall was built in 1969. men’s dormitories and these halls sparked a 1952 panty raid that caught national Gymnasium (6) was secured Pre-Columbian settlements on the shores of Lake Alice. attention. Broward Hall (31) reflects the angled footprint, breezeways, and when the New York Giants accepted Station WRUF, chartered in corrugated glass block stairwell features of the women’s dormitories. Brick and an invitation to hold their spring A major gift from the Peabody Foundation funded the George Peabody College the 1920’s as the “Voice of the clay tile preserve campus continuity, while a wide fascia at the eaves and modified training on campus. The building has for Teachers in 1913. The College of Education moved to new quarters in Norman University of Florida,” was one Gymnasium classical portico offer a prelude to post-modernism. been adapted for a gender studies Hall in 1934. Once the site for printing of the Florida Alligator newspaper, Pea- of the country’s most powerful center as Kathryn Chicone Ustler Hall. The Florida Pool (7) was completed body Hall (16) was renovated in 1990 as part of the Criser Center for Student college radio stations. Famed McCarty Hall (32) consists of a series of four structures designed for the in 1929 and construction began on Florida Field (8) in the area designated Services.