| The
Florida Agricultural Experiment Station moved to the University of Florida
in 1905 when its host school, Florida Agricultural College in Lake City,
was abolished. In 1910, a new building opened on UF's Stadium Road
as the home of the Experiment Station whose work had been carried out in
Thomas Hall. The building's surrounding grounds were landscaped
to provide hands-on research for students. The Experiment Station building
was designed in Collegiate
Gothic style by William
Edwards and built by the J. J. Cain Company. The building
was renovated in 1943 under the direction of Rudolph Weaver. In 1944, it
was named for noted entomologist Dr. Wilmon E. Newell, a director of the
Station and provost for Agriculture.
Newell
Hall was added to the National Register in 1979. It is also
a part of the University of Florida Campus Historic District, a collection
of buildings added to the National Register as an historic district in
1989. |
