PHYSICAL EDUCATION BUILDING
(LUMBERJACK GYM)
On February 7, 1951 the Physical Education Building, a half million dollar structure dedicated to physical education and college athletics, was formally dedicated by Hollice E. Stevenson, president of the Lumberjack Alumni Association. That same evening, the new gymnasium hosted a basketball game between A.S.C. and the Cowboys of Hardin-Simmons University that was witnessed by 2000 spectators. Constructed by the W.S. Ford Company, the outer walls of the building consist of red sandstone and the building itself was accented by copper trimming. Inside the structure, the latest in athletic apparatus and furnishings were set off by walls of seafoam green and natural wood. NAUÕs basketball teams played in Lumberjack Gym from 1951 to December of 1977 when they moved to the Skydome. As of 1993, the Gym housed offices for humanities faculty and two classrooms. Because of numerous and expensive structural and safety problems, the condemned building was scheduled for demolition in the spring or summer of 1997.