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Unable to accommodate the immediate increased demand for college education in Florida, the Florida Board of Control opened the Tallahassee Branch of the University of Florida on the campus of Florida State College for Women in Tallahassee. [21] By the end of the 1946–1947 school year, 954 men were enrolled at the Tallahassee Branch.
The smallest bell in the Century Tower Carillon plays a high C, weighs 13 pounds (5.9 kg) and has a diameter of about 6 inches (150 mm). The largest bell, called the bourdon, plays a low A-sharp. It is 5 feet (1.5 m) tall, weighs about 7,000 pounds (3,200 kg) and is 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m) in diameter.
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 km 2) and contains 11 listed buildings plus contributing properties.
The university has over 900 buildings on the main campus (about 170 have classrooms). The University of Florida campus encompasses over 2,000 acres (8.1 km 2). The campus is home to many notable structures, including Century Tower, a 157-foot-tall (48 m) carillon tower in the center of the campus historic district.
University of Florida planned a 12-acre graduate campus in downtown West Palm Beach. But disputes delayed the plan. Then a new UF president was hired.
The Baughman Center was the brainchild of Baughman, a university alumnus, who was the first president of New College of Florida [4] He was inspired by the picture of a building he found in a National Geographic magazine — perhaps the Wayfarers Chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes, California (1951) designed by Lloyd Wright (son of Frank Lloyd Wright), or possibly one of the northwest Arkansas ...
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The Yulee area (also known as the Yulee–Mallory–Reid dormitory complex) is a historic residence hall complex at 13th Street and Inner Road, SW, on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Florida in the United States. It is the site of the first permanent dormitories built for women after the campus became co-educational in 1947. [2]