• Source: Kenney Gym and Kenney Gym Annex

The kenney" target="_blank">Kenney gym" target="_blank">Gym and the kenney" target="_blank">Kenney gym" target="_blank">Gym Annex are two buildings located at 1402-06 Springfield Avenue in Urbana, Illinois, on the campus on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Although the two buildings have been physically connected since 1914, they were built separately. They were jointly added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 under the name Military Drill Hall and Men's Gymnasium.




History


The one-story building now known as the kenney" target="_blank">Kenney gym" target="_blank">Gym Annex, the easternmost of the two structures, was built in 1889-90 as the Military Drill Hall and was designed by Nathan Clifford Ricker. The interior was converted for use as a gymnasium in 1914, at which time it became known as the Annex to the Men's gym" target="_blank">Gym building next to it. The conversion preserved the building's large column-free open space, which had been a necessity for military drilling. An eastern addition was made to the building in 1918.
The kenney" target="_blank">Kenney gym" target="_blank">Gym, the two-story building to the west, was built in 1902 and was designed by Nelson Strong Spencer in the Renaissance Revival style, strongly influenced by Ricker's design for the drill hall. It was originally called the Men's Gymnasium but was renamed the Men's Old gym" target="_blank">Gym when Huff Hall opened in 1925. In 1974, it was named after Harold Eugene "Hek" kenney" target="_blank">Kenney, a former UIUC wrestler, coach, and administrator in the early 20th century.
Prior to the opening of Huff Hall in 1925, kenney" target="_blank">Kenney gym" target="_blank">Gym housed the Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team. It was also home to the women's volleyball program from 1974 until 1989 and the men's wrestling team until those teams moved to Huff Hall.
From 1919 to 1925, kenney" target="_blank">Kenney gym" target="_blank">Gym played host to the state finals of the Illinois High School Association boys' basketball tournament.




Current use


kenney" target="_blank">Kenney gym" target="_blank">Gym Annex is a 5,000-seat multi-purpose arena. kenney" target="_blank">Kenney gym" target="_blank">Gym is the practice facility for the Fighting Illini men's and women's gymnastics teams.
The buildings are also used by University Laboratory High School in Urbana, located two blocks east of kenney" target="_blank">Kenney gym" target="_blank">Gym on Springfield Avenue, as their gym" target="_blank">gym for high school volleyball and basketball, along with their physical education program.




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UIUC Dep't of Campus Recreation
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National Register nomination

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• Kenney Gym and Kenney Gym Annex
• University Laboratory High School (Urbana, Illinois)
• Illinois Fighting Illini
• State Farm Center
• Huff Hall
• Illinois Fighting Illini women's volleyball
• Illinois Fighting Illini men's gymnastics
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Engineering Campus (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
• Champaign, Illinois