Ustler Hall

	Women's Gymnasium
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Ustler Hall
Location	Gainesville, Florida
Coordinates	29°39′1″N 82°20′49″W / 29.65028°N 82.34694°WCoordinates: 29°39′1″N 82°20′49″W / 29.65028°N 82.34694°W
Built	1919
Architect	William Augustus Edwards
NRHP reference #	79000660[1]
Added to NRHP	June 27, 1979

Kathryn Chicone Ustler Hall (formerly known as the Women's Gymnasium and University Gymnasium) is a historic building on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. It was designed by William Augustus Edwards in the Collegiate Gothic style. On June 27, 1979, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

History

Construction on the gymnasium began in the summer of 1918, just as World War I was coming to an end and UF's student body was growing. The building opened in 1919, and one of its first uses was to serve as the spring headquarters for the New York Giants of Major League Baseball, who held spring training in Gainesville for one season.^[2]

The University Gym was designed as an assembly hall and sports venue, and was used for several years as the home of the Florida Gators men's basketball team. Spectator seating was very limited, however, and with the university continuing to grow, the building was found to be better suited for intramural sports and smaller assemblies, and the university made plans to build a larger sports facility when funding allowed.

The larger Florida Gymnasium was finally completed in 1948, the same year that the university went fully co-educational. The old University Gym was renamed the Women's Gymnasium and was used for hosting women's sporting events along with student recreation. The O'Connell Center replaced it for sporting events in 1979 and the university received state funds to demolish the building. It was preserved due to its historic nature, but it was left mostly unused.

With a donation from sociology alumna Kathryn Chicone Ustler in 2000, the vacant gym was transformed into a 14,700-square-foot (1,370 m²) three story academic building that contains faculty and administrative offices, as well as seminar classrooms. The restoration process began in 2004 and the Women's Studies Department moved into the facility in July 2006. Now known as Ustler Hall, it houses the Center for Women's and Gender Studies Research. Ustler Hall is the only freestanding campus building in the United States devoted solely to Women’s Studies. This is the first building on the UF campus renamed to honor a woman.

References

↑ National Park Service (2007-01-23). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Teague, Edward H. "Historic Buildings Tour -- UF Builds: The Architecture of the University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida)". web.uflib.ufl.edu. University of Florida. Retrieved 26 March 2018.

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[nris-1] National Park Service (2007-01-23). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.

[2] Teague, Edward H. "Historic Buildings Tour -- UF Builds: The Architecture of the University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida)". web.uflib.ufl.edu. University of Florida. Retrieved 26 March 2018.

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