Francis Gymnasium

Built in 1903, it is located in St. Louis County, Missouri, on the far western edge of the university's Danforth Campus.

It is part of the Washington University Hilltop Campus Historic District.

Completed in time for 1904's Louisiana Purchase Exposition, the gymnasium was used as the main indoor venue for the 1904 Summer Olympics,[1] hosting the boxing and fencing events.

[2] After the Olympics, the building was turned over to the Washington University Athletics Department.

In the early 1920s, a field house and a swimming pool were built next to Francis Gym.

Francis Gymnasium, Washington University in St. Louis, April 2018
1904 Olympics. Francis Gymnasium can be seen in the background.