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University of Florida Campus Historic District, Historic district at University of Florida in Gainesville, United States.

The University of Florida Campus Historic District covers about 650 acres bounded by West University Avenue, Southwest 13th Street, Stadium Road and Gale Lemerand Drive. It holds 11 listed buildings plus contributing properties, among them the Plaza of the Americas, added with five buildings in 2008. William Augustus Edwards designed the listed buildings, with Rolfs Hall finished by Rudolph Weaver; the contributing properties are Rudolph Weaver's work except University Auditorium, designed by Edwards.

The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 20, 1989. On June 24, 2008, additional information was approved, adding six contributing properties: five buildings and the Plaza of the Americas. The listed buildings were designed by William Augustus Edwards, though Rolfs Hall was finished by Rudolph Weaver; the contributing properties were designed by Rudolph Weaver except University Auditorium, designed by Edwards.

The central plaza was renamed the Plaza of the Americas in 1931, and it was added to the National Register district in 2008 as a contributing property. It sits within the 1927 Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. landscape plan for the campus.

The district covers about 650 acres, bounded by West University Avenue, Southwest 13th Street, Stadium Road and Gale Lemerand Drive. Its 11 listed buildings and contributing properties sit on the university campus, so expect to walk between them; the Plaza of the Americas, added to the district in 2008, marks the central campus.

The district's central plaza was renamed the Plaza of the Americas in 1931, four years after Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. produced his 1927 landscape plan for the university. The plaza was among six contributing properties added to the National Register listing on June 24, 2008.

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