Tigert Hall, built in the late 1940s and early 1950s, is a historic administrative building located on the eastern edge of the

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campus in

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. It was designed by architect Jefferson Hamilton in a modified

Collegiate Gothic Collegiate Gothic is an architectural style subgenre of Gothic Revival architecture, popular in the late-19th and early-20th centuries for college and high school buildings in the United States and Canada, and to a certain extent Europ ...

style to function as the university's main administration building. In 1960, it was renamed for John J. Tigert, the university's third president, who served from 1928 to 1947. Tigert Hall faces S.W. Thirteenth Street ( U.S. 441), one of the major public roads adjoining the university's campus. Tigert Hall became a

contributing property In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic dist ...

in the

University of Florida Campus Historic District The University of Florida Campus Historic District is a Historic districts in the United States, historic district on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. The district, bounded by Florida State Road 26, West Univers ...

in 2008; the historic district had been previously added to the

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on April 20, 1989.Nathan Crabbe,
Nine sites added to UF's historic district
" ''Gainesville Sun'' (July 16, 2008). Retrieved January 6, 2009.

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