A major gift of $40,000 from the George Peabody Foundation helped complete the first College for Teachers in 1913. The College of Education moved to new quarters in Norman Hall in 1934. Once the site for printing the Florida Alligator newspaper, Peabody Hall was renovated in 1990 as part of the Criser Student Services Center by VOA Architects of Orlando. At the focal point of the courtyard framed by Peabody, Criser Hall, and the Library is a sculpture depicting President Albert Murphree, 2nd President of UF, created in 1946 by Paul Manship, sculptor of the Prometheus at Rockefeller Center.
2-1/2 stories and basement
High water table level
Rectangular with projecting end pavilions and central pavilion
Gable
Short ends of rectangle and center under cross gable
"Gothic" revival door pattern
12 over 12 light single hung
Replacement sash
Brick is Common Bond
6th course Flemish Bond
Jack arches at basement windows
"French" light red clay tiles with "bump" ridge tile
Copper downspouts, scuppers, and conductor heads
Cast stone water table
Cast stone finials and entrance surrounds
Cast stone lintels and sills
Faces Plaza space and building mass aligns with Griffin-Floyd Hall
Architect: William Augustus Edwards
Building Name: George Peabody Hall for the Teachers College, funded by the George Peabody Foundation
