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University of Florida Campus Historic District | |
Location | Gainesville, Florida |
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Coordinates | 29°39′1″N 82°20′38″W / 29.65028°N 82.34389°W |
Area | 650 acres (2.6 km2) |
Built | 1906–1939 |
Architect | William Augustus Edwards; Rudolph Weaver |
Architectural style | Collegiate Gothic |
NRHP reference No. | 89000322[1] |
Added to NRHP | April 20, 1989 |
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]
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In 1927 Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. did a landscape plan for UF. In 1931 the central plaza became the Plaza of the Americas.[8]