Fire Destroys Landmark Building at Florida Campus
United Press International
GAINESVILLE, Fla. —
A fire on the University of Florida campus Sunday night destroyed a historic building and caused as much as $5 million in damage, authorities said.
Officials said the blaze in Johnson Hall began as a grease fire in the kitchen of the 57-year-old cafeteria and office building, which the school had applied to have placed in the National Register of Historic Places.
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