Student housing at 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...

is governed by the Division of Student Affairs

Student Affairs

Student affairs staff provide services and support for students at institutions of higher education to enhance student growth and development in the United States and abroad....

, and provides housing for undergraduate, graduate, and professional students on and off-campus.

Approximately 7,500 students live in single-student residence halls. Nearly 1,700 students and their families also live on campus in 980 apartments arranged in Village Communities.

East Campus Residence Halls

Murphree Area Henry H. Buckman Henry Holland Buckman Henry Holland Buckman was an attorney from Duval County, Florida, who became a legislator in the Florida Legislature and served on the Judiciary Committee...  Hall (1905) Buckman Hall Buckman Hall (Gainesville, Florida) Buckman Hall, an historic building located in Murphree Area on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Florida, United States. It was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on January 11, 1974.... Capacity: 126 Rooms: 82 Registered Historic Building National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation... William R. Thomas Hall (1905) Thomas Hall Thomas Hall (Gainesville, Florida) Thomas Hall, built in 1905, is a historic building located in Murphree Area on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, United States... Capacity: 170 Rooms: 109 Registered Historic Building Andrew Sledd Andrew Sledd Andrew Warren Sledd was an American theologian, university professor and university president. A native of Virginia, he was the son of a prominent Methodist minister, and was himself ordained as a minister after earning his bachelor's degree and master's degree...  Hall (1929) Sledd Hall Capacity: 187 Rooms: 98 Registered Historic Building Duncan U. Fletcher Duncan U. Fletcher Duncan Upshaw Fletcher was an American lawyer and politician of the Democratic Party. Senator Fletcher was the longest serving U.S. Senator in Florida's history.-Early life and career:...  Hall (1939) Fletcher Hall Fletcher Hall (Gainesville, Florida) Fletcher Hall, originally called North Hall, is an historic dormitory building on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, in the United States. It makes up half of the "F" in the "U.F." in the Murphee Area. The "U.F" in the building design can be seen from an aerial view... Capacity: 166 Rooms: 87 Registered Historic Building Albert A. Murphree Albert A. Murphree Albert Alexander Murphree was an American college professor and university president. Murphree was a native of Alabama, and became a mathematics instructor after earning his bachelor's degree...  Hall (1939) Murphree Hall Murphree Hall (Gainesville, Florida) Murphree Hall is a historic student residence building located in the Murphree Area on the northern edge of the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Florida. It was designed by architect Rudolph Weaver in the Collegiate Gothic style and completed in 1939. The building was named for Albert... Capacity: 348 Rooms: 169 Registered Historic Building

Yulee Area Yulee Area (Gainesville, Florida) Yulee Area is a historic residence hall area 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... Nancy W. Yulee Hall (1950) Yulee Hall Yulee Area (Gainesville, Florida) Yulee Area is a historic residence hall area 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... Capacity: 177 Rooms: 94 Global Living Learning Community Angela Mallory Hall (1950) Mallory Hall Yulee Area (Gainesville, Florida) Yulee Area is a historic residence hall area 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... Capacity: 175 Rooms: 91 Mary M. Reid Hall (1950) Reid Hall Yulee Area (Gainesville, Florida) Yulee Area is a historic residence hall area 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... Capacity: 166 Rooms: 86 Fine Arts Living Learning Community Annie I. Broward Napoleon B. Broward Napoleon Bonaparte Broward was the 19th Governor of the U.S. state of Florida from January 3, 1905 to January 5, 1909. He also served as the sheriff of Duval County, Florida, and in the Florida House of Representatives....  Hall (1954) Broward Hall Capacity: 690 Rooms: 325 Faculty-in-Residence Community Marjorie K. Rawlings Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie, also known as The...  Hall (1958) Rawlings Hall Capacity: 364 Rooms: 177 May A. Mann Jennings May Mann Jennings May Austin Elizabeth Mann Jennings was the First Lady of Florida as wife of Florida Governor William Sherman Jennings. She was one of Florida's most powerful and influential women.-Early years:...  Hall (1961) Jennings Hall Capacity: 520 Rooms: 248 GatorWell at Jennings Robert Calder Beaty Towers (1967) Beaty Towers Capacity: 787 Rooms: 200

West Campus Residence Halls

Tolbert Area North Hall North Hall (Gainesville, Florida) North Hall built in 1950 is a historic building on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, in the United States. It was designed by Guy Fulton in a modified Collegiate Gothic style to provide housing for the student body.- See also :... (1950) Capacity: 158 Rooms: 85 Harold C. Riker Hall (1950) Riker Hall Riker Hall (Gainesville, Florida) Riker Hall built in 1950 is a historic building on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, in the United States. It was designed by Guy Fulton in a modified Collegiate Gothic style to provide housing for the student body. It was named for Harold C. Riker in 2000.-... Capacity: 194 Rooms: 105 Benjamin A. Tolbert Hall (1950) Tolbert Hall Tolbert Hall (Gainesville, Florida) Benjamin A. Tolbert Hall built in 1950 is a historic building on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, in the United States. It was designed by Guy Fulton in a modified Collegiate Gothic style to house the Faculty-in-Residence Community... Capacity: 252 Rooms: 127 Faculty-in-Residence Community 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....  Hall (1950) Weaver Hall Capacity: 171 Rooms: 98 International House at Weaver Hall East Hall (1961) Capacity: 210 Rooms: 105 East Hall Engineering Community

Graham Area Klein H. Graham Hall (1961) Graham Hall Capacity: 218 Rooms: 105 Career Exploration Community Thomas M. Simpson Hall (1961) Simpson Hall Capacity: 225 Rooms: 109 Harry R. Trusler Hall (1961) Trusler Hall Capacity: 208 Rooms: 104 Leader/Scholar Program Keys Residential Complex (1991) Capacity: 419 Rooms: 107 Springs Residential Complex (1995) Capacity: 476 Rooms: 286 GatorWell at the Springs Lakeside Residential Complex (2000) Capacity: 528 Rooms: 135 Faculty-in-Residence Community Hume Hall Hume Hall Hume Hall, built in 2002, is the Honors Residential College of the University of Florida, located on the eastern side of the university's Gainesville, Florida campus.The current structure is the second at the university to bear the name... (2002) Capacity: 608 Rooms: 322 Honors Residential College

Honors Housing

The University of Florida Honors Program

Honors course

Honors course is a distinction applied in the United States to certain classes to distinguish them from standard course offerings. The difference between a regular class and the honors class is not necessarily the amount of work, but the type of work required and the pace of studying...

 offers housing for freshmen at Hume Hall

Hume Hall

Hume Hall, built in 2002, is the Honors Residential College of the University of Florida, located on the eastern side of the university's Gainesville, Florida campus.The current structure is the second at the university to bear the name...

. This residentially-based academic community consists of two residence halls and integrates the housing needs of Honors residents with facilities, staff, and programs in support of the Honors Program.

In total 608 residents can be accommodated, and Hume Hall is located in the heart of the UF campus. The facility has a commons building, a number of multimedia-capable classrooms, faculty offices with an on-site academic advisers, a large activity room, and an information desk.

Village Apartments

Corry Memorial Village (1958)

• Corry Village
• Units:
  • 1 bedrooms — 100
  • 2 bedrooms — 108
  • 3 bedrooms — 8

Emory Gardner Diamond Memorial Village (1965)

• Diamond Village
• Units:
  • 1 bedrooms — 104
  • 2 bedrooms — 104

Raymer Francis Maguire Memorial Village (1971)

• Maguire Village
• Units:
  • 1 bedrooms — 110
  • 2 bedrooms — 110

University Village South (1972)

• Units:
  • 1 bedrooms — 64
  • 2 bedrooms — 64

Tanglewood Village (1973)

• Units:
  • 1 bedrooms — 89
  • 2 bedrooms — 81
  • 2 bedroom townhouse
    Townhouse
    A townhouse is the term historically used in the United Kingdom, Ireland and in many other countries to describe a residence of a peer or member of the aristocracy in the capital or major city. Most such figures owned one or more country houses in which they lived for much of the year...
    
    s — 30
  • Efficiencies
    Studio apartment
    A studio apartment, also known as a studio flat , efficiency apartment or bachelor/bachelorette style apartment, is a small apartment which combines living room, bedroom, and kitchen or kitchenette into a single room...
    
     — 8

Former facilities

There have been some buildings at the University of Florida that were used for housing, but have since been demolished or converted to other uses.

After rapid increases in enrollment after World War II and the allowing of women to enroll, several temporary buildings were erected on the campus. These included

• Flavets (1945–1974) - Named after a contraction of the term "Florida Veterans", these former military housing units were located at three locations on campus, including Flavet I near the current site of 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...
  
  , Flavet II at the current location of Beaty Towers, and Flavet III at the current location of the Keys Residential Complex.
• Temporary Frame Residence Halls (1946-1960s) - One story frame buildings built in several locations on campus, including the current site of the O'Connell Center and the current Computer Science and Engineering building.
• Grove Hall (1946–1977) - Reconstructed military building relocated from Camp Blanding
  Camp Blanding
  Camp Blanding Joint Training Center is the primary military reservation and training base for the Florida National Guard, both the Florida Army National Guard and certain non-flying activities of the Florida Air National Guard. The installation is located in Clay County, Florida near the city of...
  
   located on the current site of the Architecture and Fine Arts colleges

Other facilities built after World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 included:

• The King’s House (1954–1967) - Two white framed buildings on University Avenue originally built in 1921 and used for experimental housing arrangements. The King's House was an unofficial name for Building 880, the eastern building. Both buildings still stand and are currently homes for Institute of Black Culture and the Institute of Hispanic Culture.
• Lonilair & Michael Halls, Pierce & Patrick Courts - Leased off-campus housing for women, located north of University Avenue near Anderson Hall
  Anderson Hall (Gainesville, Florida)
  Anderson Hall is a historic building in Gainesville, Florida, in the northeastern section of the University of Florida campus. On June 27, 1979, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places...
  
   and Library West
• Trailervet Village, Alachua Army Air Base, and Stengel Air Field - Temporary housing consisting of trailers and military barracks was located at the Alachua Army Air Base (now Gainesville Regional Airport
  Gainesville Regional Airport
  Gainesville Regional Airport is a public airport located three miles northeast of the central business district of Gainesville, a city in Alachua County, Florida, United States. The airport is owned by the City of Gainesville, FL and operated by the Gainesville-Alachua County Regional Airport...
  
  ) and Stengel Air Field (now Butler Plaza
  Butler Plaza
  Butler Plaza is a large retail complex located in southwest Gainesville, Florida. It is the largest power center in Florida and among the largest in the southeast United States...
  
  )
• Yon Hall (1966–1995) - Athlete housing located in the east side of the Ben Hill Griffin Stadium
  Ben Hill Griffin Stadium
  Ben Hill Griffin Stadium at Florida Field is the football stadium for the University of Florida and the home field of the university's Florida Gators football team. It is located on the university's Gainesville, Florida campus. The stadium was originally built in 1930, and has been regularly...
  
  . When the NCAA ruled against athletic housing, the Springs Residential Complex was constructed and the facilities at the stadium were converted into offices for several university departments.
• Schucht Village (1959–1997) - Apartment buildings constructed for veterans and their families, and later graduate students and their families. The facility was located near Shands
  Shands at the University of Florida
  Shands at the University of Florida is a teaching hospital at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida and Jacksonville, Florida and is two of many hospitals in the Shands HealthCare system.-History:...
  
  , and the complex was sold to Shands in 1997. Shands subsequently demolished all of the buildings except for Building 271, which was refurbished and is now used to house transplant patients.
• Hume Hall (1958–2000) - A large multi-story residence hall located at the intersection of Gale Lemerand Drive (North South Drive) and Museum Road. The building was demolished in 2000 to construct the current Honors Residential College at Hume Hall
  Hume Hall
  Hume Hall, built in 2002, is the Honors Residential College of the University of Florida, located on the eastern side of the university's Gainesville, Florida campus.The current structure is the second at the university to bear the name...
  
  .

External links

• Official UF Housing Website
• UF Housing Statistics
• Past Residences
• College Board Statistics