[2] In 1985, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places along with the natatorium named for benefactor Annie Merner Pfeiffer.

[4] Basketball and volleyball competition, and other indoor sports, were moved to the 2,300 seat Branch Rickey Arena, built adjacent to Edwards Gymnasium, upon its completion in 1976.

Built mainly of light-colored brick, it has a hipped red clay-tiled roof with dormers at both ends and sides.

[3][note 1] The complex was listed on the National Register as part of a 1984 study of historic resources on the OWU campus.

[7] All the OWU sites listed together on the National Register in 1985 are: Media related to Edwards Gymnasium at Wikimedia Commons