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John C. Pace Library
The effect of the Great Society of the Johnson Years is mirrored in the joint funding from the U.S. Department of Heath, Education, and Welfare and State of Florida to construct the John C. Pace Library in 1966-1967, and which formally opened its doors in September 1967. This view of the back of the library also shows the concrete benches that ringed the library perimeter and which were dispersed around campus with the renovation and expansion in 1994-1995. |
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University Commons
View of original Commons Building (without auditorium), looking through original library breezeway, August 1968. Inside, the Commons was called the “Great Hall” for the two-story central space dominated by the large fireplace, reminiscent of the heritage of the forest lodges built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s and 1940s. |
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UWF Beach Property
UWF Campus Beach Property (150 acres) located on Santa Rosa Island, view in May 1974. |
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UWF Married Student Dormitories
Dormitories for married students under construction , January 1974.
These were torn down and replaced by Argo Hall in 2004. |
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Dodson Complex
A view of the covered ramp connecting Building 74 and 76 of the Pat Dodson Complex. The three buildings (74, 75, and 76) comprised Alpha College, housing communication arts, education, special education, and the Provost’s offices and staff when they were dedicated on November 10, 1977. Mayhew Wilson “Pat” Dodson was a civic leader, a member of the Board of Regents, and widely known for his efforts in historic preservation in Pensacola. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from UWF in 1974. |
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UWF Eglin Campus
Eglin Air Force base was the site of UWF’s first extension campus in West Florida and by Summer 1971, was offering a variety of courses to serve the Fort Walton Beach area. UWF’s first extension campus was Corpus Christi, Texas at which we offered degrees in Aeronautical Systems from 1969-1974. |
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Ellyson Field Dormitories
To meet the demand for student housing, the University of West Florida signed a two-year lease on former bachelor officer’s quarters (BOQ) of the Navy base Ellyson Field in the summer of 1983. Conversion of the facility provided housing for 114 UWF students. |
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UWF Information Center
In an effort to improve parking at UWF in 1985, the parking lots were re-numbered and a series of signs utilizing colors and symbols was inaugurated. The old system which gave parking lots letters and numbers (A-1, R-2, G-3, O-4) (ARGO, get it?) was replaced by a numbering system with parking lots on the right being even-numbered and those on the left being odd-numbered (e.g. Lot 22, 24, etc.) as you drove onto the campus. Shown here is the sign by the new Information Center in August 1985. |
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UWF Computer Center
The new $4.5 million Computer Center (Bldg. 79) was dedicated January 23, 1986. At the same time, the William Craig Nystul Chair of Computer Science was also announced. This was the second University’s endowed eminent scholar trust and named for William Craig Nystul, a 1974 UWF alumnus and one of the last Americans killed in the Vietnam War. |
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UWF College of Education
View of newly-opened College of Education Complex with hillside bubbling stream, 1990. |
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Pace Hall
Pace Hall represents the current style of student residences being built at UWF. Opened in 2001, the facility was named for John C. Pace, Jr. |
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International Center
The UWF International Center and Japan House opened in 2004, symbolizing fifteen years of Japanese partnerships and programs. |
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Dorr House
The Clara Barkley Dorr house in the downtown Historic Pensacola Village is currently the residence of UWF President John Cavanaugh. The home was built by Clara Garnier Barkley Dorr in 1871 as a residence for her and her five children following the death of her husband, Eben Walker Dorr in 1870. The Barkley and Dorr families were important merchant families of Pensacola; so important, that Scientific American reported (and illustrated!) the launching of Dorr’s dry dock in its March 19, 1851 issue. |
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Health, Leisure, and Sports Facility
UWF’s 108,000 square-foot Health, Leisure, and Sports (HLS) facility opened in 2005. The facility boasts offices and classrooms for the Division of Health, Leisure, and Exercise Science, pedagogy gym, state-of-the-art fitness center, indoor track, climbing wall, and multiple racquetball and sports courts. |
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