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Bynum Gymnasium

222 East Cameron Avenue

Chapel Hill, NC 27514

Opened: January 1, 1904

Originally known as Bynum Gymnasium, now called Bynum Hall, is the current home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate Admissions office and was the first home of North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team. At an executive meeting on October 2, 1903, school President Francis Preston Venable announced that former North Carolina Supreme Court justice William Preston Bynum donated $25,000 to have a gymnasium built in honor of his grandson who was a student at the university and had died due to typhoid fever. Architect Frank P. Milburn drafted plans for the structure, which were then approved by Bynum and the university's board of trustees. The building was designed to have a Greek architecture influence and had three stories with an above-ground basement. It originally contained a swimming pool, gymnasium, office spaces, and other rooms for various sports like boxing and fencing. The building started construction by June 1904 and was completed by February 1905.

Increased demand for viewing the varsity basketball team and limited capacity at Bynum Gym led the university to appropriate $54,482.45 in funds to have a new structure built to house the team, the Indoor Athletic Court or more commonly referred to as the Tin Can. The team played their first game at the Tin Can on January 8, 1924.

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