The Hub (Gainesville, Florida)

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name = The Hub

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location = Gainesville, Florida, USA
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built = 1949-50 [http://www.ppd.ufl.edu/HistoricCampusWebsite/hcHub.htm Historic Campus - The Hub] ]
architect = Andrew Ferendino, lead architect for Russell T. Pancoast and Associates of Miami; Jefferson M. Hamilton, Guy C. Fulton
architecture = Mid-Century modern
added = June 24, 2008cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/listings/20080703.HTM|title=Weekly List Of Actions Taken On Properties: 6/23/08 through 6/27/08|date=2008-07-03|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
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The Hub, formerly known as the UF Bookstore, is an historic building on Stadium Road between Buckman Drive and Fletcher Drive on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Florida in the United States. On June 24, 2008, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Built in 1949-1950 and designed by Andrew Ferendino of the Miami architectural firm of Russell T. Pancoast and Associates, as directed by Florida Board of Control architect Guy Fulton and UF's consulting architect Jefferson Hamilton, it was UF's first departure from the Collegiate Gothic architectural style that had prevailed on the campus since the first buildings, Buckman and Thomas, were built in 1905. It originally housed the campus bookstore, post office, barber shop, soda fountain, and movie theater.

The bookstore later moved to the J. Wayne Reitz Union. A small food court was set up on the first floor and the "Technology Hub" with computers on the second floor. [McCarthy, Kevin, and Laurie, Murray D., "Guide to the University of Florida and Gainesville", Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 1997, pp. 191-182]

The Hub underwent a $10.8 million renovation, reopening in April 2007. The renovation added various computer and videoconferencing equivalent, a 10,000-square-foot open wireless Internet area, a Starbucks, and group and individual study rooms. The Office of Academic Technology and the International Center (study abroad) moved to the Hub following the renovation. [http://news.ufl.edu/2007/04/17/open-house-marks-reopening-of-hub/] ⋅

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