Prince and Princess Murat

Prince Achille Murat was the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte and the son of General Jochaim Murat, King of Naples. He settled in Florida in 1825, and as attorney, county judge, and director of Tallahassee's Union Bank, he played an active ...

Bldg. 74, 75, 76 UWF Dodson Complex

The College of Business Complex, occupied in 1978, required a demanding building program calling for a classroom and lecture room facility with the capability to expand one-into-the-other via floor to ceiling panels separating them. The plan also included a separate, ...

Texas School Book Depository

November 22, 1963. 12:30 pm. 8 seconds change the history of America. Bullets originating from The Texas Book Depository strike President John F. Kennedy fatally wounding him. Originally built in 1901, the building on the corner of Elm and Houston ...

The Battle of Pensacola (1781)

In June of 1779 the Spanish declared war on England. In an attempt to remove England from the New World they decided to remove England's control of it's colony in west Florida. The Spanish governor of Louisiana, Bernardo de Galvez, ...

Bldg. 21 UWF Student Support Services

Buldg. 21 is located at the center of activities on the UWF campus. The architect for this structure was William F. Parks, the designer of the Natatorium/Aquatic Center.

The building is "L" shaped with the main entrance at the juncture of ...

Bldg. 19 UWF Police, Counseling

Buildings 18 and 19 were, for the most part, wooden structures with earth-red brick exterior walls and a wooden "boxed grid" flat roof with copper fascias.

It was the desire of the architects, Sam Marshall and Dick MacNeil, that the ...

Bldg. 13 UWF Anthropology

Occupied in 1967, the building was designed for change, initially housing the science faculties, their respective laboratories, and the lecture auditorium. The design worked, as this building has been through a series of renovations over the years.

The science lecture auditorium ...

Bldg. 32, UWF John C. Pace Library

Named for the first UWF Board member, the John C. Pace University Library was built in the geometric center of the campus to serve as the University's visual focal point. With an open ground floor designed for future expansion, the ...

Pantex

In early 1942, the United States Army constructed the Pantex Ordinance Plant on a 16,000 acre wheat field near Amarillo, Texas. The plant was originally used to load and pack artillery shells during World War II. Pantex produced its first ...

Project Gnome

"And they will have to beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war anymore." - Isaiah 2:4

These words from the Christian Bible became the ...