Dauer Hall (Gainesville, Florida)
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Dauer Hall (Florida Union)
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| Location | Gainesville, Florida |
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| Coordinates | 29°38′59″N 82°20′42″W / 29.64972°N 82.34500°WCoordinates: 29°38′59″N 82°20′42″W / 29.64972°N 82.34500°W |
| Built | 1936 |
| Architect | Rudolph Weaver |
| Architectural style | Late Gothic Revival |
Dauer Hall is a historic building on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, in the United States.
Dauer Hall is a contributing property in the University of Florida Campus Historic District which was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 20, 1989.
Designed by Rudolph Weaver in the Collegiate Gothic architectural style, the building was built in 1936. Because the Great Depression caused a shortage of funds, the building took several years to construct, and its distinctive stained glass windows on the east facade were not placed until 1938.William Jennings Bryan was one fundraiser for the construction of the hall.
Originally the site of the student union, the building was called the Florida Union. The building housed a bookstore, small library, hotel, soda fountain, banquet hall and ballroom (in what later became the Keene Faculty Center, see below), chapel, game room, "sundry ship," and student organization offices (including those of not-yet independent student newspaper, the Florida Alligator, whose officers were in the basement). Later part of the second floor was used by the Religion Department and the YMCA. The Florida Union, moved to the new building on Museum Road (later renamed the J. Wayne Reitz Union) when that building was completed in 1967.
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