Bldg. 82, UWF CFPA

Occupied in 1991, The Center for Fine and Performing Arts (CFPA) was the most expensive building on the UWF campus at $10,326,268. The academic programs and faculty offices for these disciplines were in the Humanities Building (36) and cramped for ...

Bldg. 85, 86 UWF COP

The College of Education, offices and classrooms, marked the first complex of buildings to recognize the reorganization of the academic structuring of the university from Alpha, Gamma, and Omega, to the more traditional College of Arts and Sciences, College of ...

Bldg. 81, UWF Campus Information Center

Campus Information Center, occupied in 1982, was a small but significant building. The site chosen was just west of the juncture of University Parkway and Campus Drive. The building program called for a covered drive-up window, two entrances convenient to ...

Bldg. 83, UWF Wetlands Research Lab

Wetlands Research Lab (WRL) is not the biggest building on campus, nor the most important; however, it is representative of the many smaller, support buildings across campus that fill out the needs of what makes up a university. WRL managed ...

Bldg. 77 and 78 UWF ERDC

Educational Research and Development Center (ERDC) was the brainchild of Dr. Billy Williams and the desire of President Crosby. The program was created as a laboratory for on-going educational research and development to explore the approach and methodology of the ...

John Gilmore Riley House

John Gilmore Riley was born in 1857, the son of Sarah and James Riley. He was not formally educated, but was instructed by his Aunt Henrietta. Riley became principal of Lincoln Academy, Tallahassee's first local high school for African Americans ...

Governor W.D. Bloxham House

This Federal-style building was constructed in 1844 by Richard A. Shine, a prominent builder and mason who constructed the south wing of Florida's Capitol in 1845.

In 1881, Mary C. Bloxham, Governor Bloxham's wife, acquired the property. Governor Bloxham, the ...

Old Fort Braden School

Fort Braden was established in 1839 as a military outpost during the Second Seminole War (1835-1842). At the end of the war the fort was abandoned, but the small farming community that had developed nearby continued.

A school in the ...

Plantation Cemetery at Betton Hills

The site is all that remains of a much larger cemetery for African Americans dating from the pre-Civil War era through the 1940s. It was the main burial ground for black slaves and servants from the Betton Plantation as well ...

Florida A&M University

Founded in 1887 as the State Normal College for Colored Students, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) is the only historically state supported educational facility for African Americans in Florida. It has always been co-educational.

In 1890, the second Morrill ...