Dauer Hall (Gainesville, Florida)
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Dauer Hall is a historic building on the campus of the University of Florida
University of Florida
The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...

 in Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville, Florida
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, in the United States
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.

Dauer Hall is a contributing property
Contributing property
In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing resource or contributing property is any building, structure, or object which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic district, listed locally or federally, significant...

 in the University of Florida Campus Historic District
University of Florida Campus Historic District
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 North-South Drive, encompasses approximately and contains 11 listed...

 which was added to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
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 on April 20, 1989.

History

Designed by Rudolph Weaver
Rudolph Weaver
Rudolph Weaver was an American architect and university professor and administrator renowned for various buildings that he designed in Florida, Idaho and Washington, many of which are academic....

 in the Collegiate Gothic
Gothic Revival architecture
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 architectural style
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, the building was built in 1936. Because the Great Depression
Great Depression
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 caused a shortage of funds, the building took several years to construct, and its distinctive stained glass
Stained glass
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 windows on the east facade
Facade
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 were not placed until 1938. William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan
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 was one fundraiser for the construction of the hall.

Originally the site of the student union
Student activity center
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, the building was called the Florida Union. The building housed a bookstore, small library
Library
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, hotel
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, soda fountain
Soda fountain
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, banquet hall and ballroom
Ballroom
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 (in what later became the Keene Faculty Center, see below), chapel
Chapel
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, game room
Recreation room
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, "sundry ship," and student organization offices (including those of not-yet independent student newspaper
Student newspaper
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, the Florida Alligator
The Independent Florida Alligator
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, whose officers were in the basement
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). Later part of the second floor was used by the Religion Department and the YMCA
YMCA
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. The Florida Union, moved to the new building on Museum Road (later renamed the J. Wayne Reitz Union
J. Wayne Reitz Union
The J. Wayne Reitz Union is the student union of the University of Florida, located on Museum Road on the university campus in Gainesville, Florida...

) when that building was completed in 1967.

The building was then given to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
The University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is the University of Florida's college for the liberal arts and sciences. and the largest of the university's 16 colleges. Most core curriculum classes and 42 majors and minors are part of the college...

 to be used for classroom
Classroom
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s and faculty office space, and was renamed the Arts and Sciences Building. The building adopted its current name in 1975 in honor of Manning J. Dauer
Manning J. Dauer
Manning Julian Dauer was an American political scientist.Dauer was born in North Carolina. He received his bachelor's degree and master's degree from the University of Florida and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois .Dauer was one of the foremost scholars of Florida politics...

, the longtime chairman of the political science
Political science
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 department.

Keene Faculty Center

The Keene Faculty Center located in the western wing of Dauer Hall is a multipurpose room used mainly by College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
The University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is the University of Florida's college for the liberal arts and sciences. and the largest of the university's 16 colleges. Most core curriculum classes and 42 majors and minors are part of the college...

 faculty.

Facilities

The high-ceiling
Ceiling
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ed room comprises 1600 square feet (148.6 m²) and has wood
Wood
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 panelling
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 and flooring
Wood flooring
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 as well as arched wind
Wind
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ows. The main floor consists of a commons room (measuring 32 by 54 feet), a storage room, and a small kitchen
Kitchen
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. The commons room has couch
Couch
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es, easy chairs, 20 trestle table
Trestle table
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, and 75 dining chairs. Open to faculty and guests weekdays from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. as a coffee
Coffee
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, reading, and discussion room, it can be reserved for use in late afternoons, evenings, and on weekends, for other activities, such as dinner
Dinner
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s (with seating for up to 50), reception
Party
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s, concert
Concert
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s, lecture
Lecture
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s, conferences, and meetings.

The gallery
Observation deck
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 on the second floor overlooks the main floor and is used for smaller functions. It can accommodate up to 14 people at a luncheon
Luncheon
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.

History

The Keene Faculty Center was built in the late 1930s as the Banquet Hall, and it was the upper part of the two-story Food Services building, connected to Florida Union (Dauer Hall) on the east, and the University Dining Hall on the west. (The University Dining Hall, UF's original dining hall, was designed by William Augustus Edwards
William Augustus Edwards
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 and was built in 1912. It was also known as "the Commons" and was later named Johnson Hall. It was destroyed in a fire in 1987 and the Academic Advising Center now occupies the site).

The Banquet Hall opened in 1936 or 1937 and included chandelier
Chandelier
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s left over from the construction of University Auditorium
University Auditorium (Gainesville, Florida)
The University Auditorium, originally known as the Memorial Auditorium and sometimes called the University of Florida Auditorium, is an historic building on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, in the United States....

. Originally the basement part of the room was used as a "short-order café
Café
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" and bookstore and the upper portion was used for banquet
Banquet
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s.

During World War II
World War II
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, Army
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 officer
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 trainees that lived in UF residence halls
University of Florida student housing
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 used the room as a mess hall
Cafeteria
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. After the war, the hall was designated part of the Florida Union and became known as the Florida Union Social Room. Most "large University dinner events" shifted to The Hub
The Hub (Gainesville, Florida)
The Hub, formerly known as the UF Bookstore, is a historic building on Stadium Road between Buckman Drive and Fletcher Drive on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Florida in the United States. On June 24, 2008, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.Built in...

 after that building was completed in 1950, but the Union Social Room was still use for banquets occasionally, such as for the annual Caribbean Conference.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the room was used as a ballroom and for student activities, including information fair
Fair
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s, student elections, and pep rallies
Pep rally
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. William E. Rion, an early director of the Florida Union, said that "smaller campus dances" were held almost every Friday night, with "street dances right outside for the larger crowds." Band
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s would play music from the balcony down to guests below. A series of international dinners was also held in the room.

After the Florida Union moved to Museum Road in 1967 (where it remains as the J. Wayne Reitz Union), Dauer Hall was given to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to alleviate a critical shortage of classroom and office space, and from 1970 to 1997, Social Room was a language lab
Language lab
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 with close to 50 listening stations. http://www.clas.ufl.edu/keene/http://www.clas.ufl.edu/llc/history.shtml

The Social Room was restored
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 to its early 20th century appearance in a $500,000 project funded by Kenneth and Janet Keene, for whom the room was renamed. The restored room was dedicated on November 12, 1998. http://www.clas.ufl.edu/alumni/alumninotes/99spring/atc.htmlhttp://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-18843800.html

See also

  • University of Florida
    University of Florida
    The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...

  • Buildings at the University of Florida
    Buildings at the University of Florida
    The University of Florida is a flagship university in the State University System of Florida and has many notable buildings located in Gainesville, Jacksonville, Orlando and throughout Florida. The Campus Historic District at the University of Florida comprises 32 contributing properties that are...

  • Campus Historic District
    University of Florida Campus Historic District
    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 North-South Drive, encompasses approximately and contains 11 listed...


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