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White Hall
Heyn Memorial Chapel
Faith Hall
General Studies Bldg.
Bethune Gravesite
Bethune Foundation & Home
Cynthia Ranslow Hall
Carl S. Swisher Library
Texas A. Adams, M.D. Infirmary
Helen Kottle Memorial Bldg.
Chas. C. Parlin Student Center
Wildcat Retreat
Ferris Meigs Hall
Ja-Flo Davis Hall
Marjorie Joyner Hall
Flora B. Curtis Hall
Rev. Alfred Cookman Hall
Dr. Anne Taylor Green Faculty
Development Center
Dr. Richard V. Moore Gravesite
Mary McLeod Bethune Fine Arts
(Humanities) Bldg.
Wendell P. Holmes, Jr.
Business/Hospitality Mgmt. Training
Center
Veva Friend Maintenance Bldg.
Security Office
Julia E. Robinson Music Hall
Larry R. Handfield Music Bldg.
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Accounting Modular Bldg.
DeWitt C. LeFevre Hall
Harrison Garfield Rhodes Hall
Richard V. Moore, Sr. Gymnasium
John O. Gross Science Hall
Rabie J. Gainous Annex
Alice Mickens Hall
Dr. Ernest C. Cook, St. Admissions
and Financial Aid
Judson McPhillips Bldg.
Bronson Residential Complex
Wildcats Training Facilities
School of Nursing
Mary McLeod-Bethune Performing
Arts Center/Auditorium
The Center for Civic Engagement
Complex
a. Presidents’ Dining Room
b. Campus Bookstore
c. Wildcat Student Center
Graduate & Professional Studies Bldg.
Coming Soon, NEW School of
Nursing
CIT & Registrar’s Office
Reverend Dr. Eugene Zimmerman
Scholarship House
Mrs. Alexis Pugh Scholarship House
Living Learning Center Residence
Complex
HISTORIC TREASURES
1 WHITE HALL
Founder of the White Sewing Machine Company, Thomas H. White, was a prominent B-CU
Benefactor and long time friend of Mary McLeod Bethune. White Hall, which became the main
focal point of the campus, was erected in his honor in 1916. Architectural highlights include the
Gertrude Hotchkiss Heyn Memorial Chapel.
2 FAITH HALL
Originally constructed of wood frame in 1907, Faith Hall was so named by Mrs. Bethune “partly
because it was an exemplification of what could be brought about by faith.” The tiny building’s
wooden frame was replaced by a much larger brick structure in 1935 through a grant from the
Rosenwald Fund and the General Education Board of the Methodist Church.
3 M C LEOD HOSPITAL
(Now General Studies Bldg.) Erected in 1912, and named for Dr. Bethune’s parents, Sam and Patsy
McLeod – The McLeod hospital served as a training school for nurses and as the only hospital for Daytona’s Negro citizens… “there being none for the care of colored people on the East
Coast south of St. Augustine.” Dr. Texas A. Adams was the hospital’s first physician.
5 MARY McLEOD BETHUNE HOME, “THE RETREAT”
“The Retreat” was constructed in 1915 and purchased for Dr. Bethune through the generos-
ity of longtime friends and benefactors Thomas H. White and James M. Gamble, founder of
Proctor and Gamble Company. Upon her death in 1955, Bethune was laid to rest in a simple
gravesite behind the home, so that friends and colleagues who continued to visit the Retreat,
also referred to as the Bethune Foundation, could visit Dr. Bethune as well. It is a National
Historic Landmark as well as a United Methodist Historic Site.
6 RANSLOW LODGE (HALL)
Built as a dormitory for female faculty, Ranslow Lodge is named for Cynthia Ranslow whose
husband founded the non Denominational Tourist Church in Daytona Beach.
14 FLORA B. CURTIS HALL
Ground was broken for this girls dormitory in 1922. One historian writes, “The building not
only affords wash bowls, bath tubs and shower baths for students and teachers, but it has
three guest chambers with private baths, a Matron’s Office and a large Living Room.” The
building was constructed through the generosity of Flora Curtis, a wealthy benefactor who
wintered in Daytona and died in 1920.
25 HARRISON RHODES MEMORIAL BLDG.
Playwright and author of travel books, Harrison Garfield Rhodes served as a member of the
board of trustees before his death in 1922. It was through his efforts and guidance that
grants from the Carnegie Foundation and other foundations were acquired to furnish the
“first school library with books.”
15 COOKMAN HALL
Dedicated in 1925 as the first dormitory for men, it was named for the Rev. Alfred Cookman,
whose $200 gift to The Rev. Samuel Darnell several years earlier helped to establish the
Cookman Institute in Jacksonville, Florida. In 1923 the Cookman Institute and the Daytona
Normal and Industrial School for Negro Girls merged to form what is today Bethune-
Cookman University.