The University of Florida Campus Historic District is a historic district on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. The district, bounded by West University Avenue, Southwest 13th Street, Stadium Road and Gale Lemerand Drive, encompasses approximately 650 acres (2.6 km2) and contains 11 listed buildings plus contributing properties. On April 20, 1989, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. On June 24, 2008, additional information was approved which resulted in the addition of 6 contributing properties (5 buildings plus the Plaza of the Americas to the district.)[3][4]
Listed buildings in the district
Note: These were all designed by William Augustus Edwards, although Rolfs Hall was finished by Rudolph Weaver.[5]
Anderson Hall, 1913
Bryan Hall, 1914
Buckman Hall, 1905-1906
Flint Hall, 1910
Griffin-Floyd Hall, 1912
Smathers Library (Library East), 1926
Newell Hall, 1910
Peabody Hall, 1913
Rolfs Hall, 1927
Thomas Hall, 1905-1906
Women's Gymnasium, 1915
Contributing properties in the district
Note: These were designed by Rudolph Weaver, except for University Auditorium, which was designed by William Augustus Edwards.
Johnson Hall (originally known as University Commons) was UFs original dining hall. Located west of Dauer, it was designed by William Augustus Edwards, built 1912 and burned 1987. The Academic Advising Center now occupies the site.
Old Benton Hall (originally the Engineering Building), was designed by William Augustus Edwards, built 1911 and demolished 1966. Grinter Hall, built in 1971, now occupies the site.
Original Post Office, third building on campus, demolished before 1977 to make way for General Purpose Building A, now Turlington Hall.[7]
Campus landscaping
In 1927 Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. did a landscape plan for UF. In 1931 the central plaza became the Plaza of the Americas.[8]