page_title: University of North Alabama
section_title: Wendell W. Gunn University Commons
hierarchical_section_title: University of North Alabama / Campus / Wendell W. Gunn University Commons
caption_attribution_description: English: The Commons Building was completed in 2014 and is located between Rogers Hall and Keller Hall at the north end of Court Street. The $8 million complex houses the University Success Center, Student Financial Services, the UNA branch of Listerhill Credit Union, a campus bookstore, Starbucks and Chik-fil-A. The Commons Building was designed by Hugo Dante and Create Architects, and was built by Consolidated Construction.
context_page_description: The University of North Alabama is a public university in Florence, Alabama. It is the state's oldest four-year public university. Occupying a 130-acre campus in a residential section of Florence, UNA is located within a four-city area that also includes Tuscumbia, Sheffield and Muscle Shoals. The four cities compose a metropolitan area with a combined population of 140,000 people.
  The University of North Alabama was founded as LaGrange College in 1830. It was reestablished in 1872 as the first state-supported teachers college south of the Ohio River. A year later, it became one of the nation's first coeducational colleges.
context_section_description: The Wendell W. Gunn University Commons was completed in 2014 and is located between Rogers Hall and Keller Hall at the north end of Court Street.  The $8 million complex houses the University Success Center, Student Financial Services, the UNA branch of Listerhill Credit Union, Starbucks and Chik-fil-A.  The Wendell W. Gunn University Commons was designed by Hugo Dante and Create Architects, and was built by Consolidated Construction. In March 2018, the building was renamed the Wendell W. Gunn University Commons in honor of Wendell Gunn, the first African-American student to enter Florence State College (now the University of North Alabama) in 1963.
caption: The Wendell W. Gunn University Commons at UNA
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