Lathrop Hall was built in 1908 as a women's gym and union of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison, Wisconsin.

'"[4] Early college phy-ed programs in the U.S. were largely inspired by gymnastics clubs brought by German immigrants in the mid-1800s.

[7] The building was designed mainly by Paul Philippe Cret, with input from Warren Laird and Arthur Peabody.

[1] At the top of the wall, modillion blocks accent a wood cornice which leads to a hip roof covered in red tile.

"When Lathrop Hall was opened in 1910, it boasted four bowling alleys, a cafeteria, a laundry, a theater, a three-story gymnasium with running track, a swimming pool, dressing rooms equipped with lockers and showers, classrooms, and offices for the faculty and the Y.W.C.A.".

In 1917 Blanche Trilling founded the national Athletic Conference of American College Women from the building.