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The landmarks and monuments of Florida State University are statues, sculptures, memorials and greenspaces located on Florida State University's Tallahassee campus that are considered culturally or historically significant. The landmarks usually depict a person in the history of the university or represent an ideal that the university holds.
This category includes various buildings and other structures located on the Florida State University campus in Tallahassee, Florida. For more information, see List of Florida State University buildings , History of Florida State University and Florida State University .
City officials of Tallahassee took steps to establish a school for boys as early as 1827 with the establishment of the Leon Academy. [13] Leon Academy was advertised in the Pensacola Gazette of March 9, 1827 as being under the supervision of Presbyterian Rev. Henry M. White, A.M. [14] By early 1831 the Leon Academy was under the control of the Tallahassee City Council.
Florida State University's Reserve Officer Training Corps is the military officer training and commissioning program at Florida State University. [301] Dating back to Civil War days, the Army ROTC unit at Florida State University is one of four collegiate military units with permission to display a battle streamer, in recognition of the ...
Florida State University's Legacy Walk was a campus improvement project that began in 1989 by FSU President Bernard F. Sliger in preparation for FSU's sesquicentennial.The intent was to reflect on the school's history and major successes of the first 150 years. [2]
Building "C" is the tallest in University Center at nine levels and was completed in 1996. [11] The Seminole Ticket Office is on the first level, along with the FSU Testing Center and the Public Safety First Aid center. The College of Social Work has classrooms and offices on the 1st, 2nd & 3rd levels. The Office of Distance Learning has ...
A five-story 168,000-square-foot (15,600 m 2) Chemistry Building opened on May 2, 2008. Also having worked in the field of materials science and nanoscience at FSU is the Nobel laureate Sir Harry Kroto, the co-discoverer of the C 60 "buckyball", who retired from FSU's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in 2015. [17] [18]
Westcott Plaza. The Westcott building was built in 1910 to serve as the Florida State College's administration building by which it was known until 1936. In that year the building was renamed the James D. Westcott, Jr. Memorial Building by then university president Edward Conradi in remembrance of the former Florida Supreme Court justice who had left a large part of his estate to what was then ...