The total plan called for a hollow square design providing for ample daylight by “all passageways to and from various parts of the building open on the light wells inside.

The College of Pharmacy will occupy the third floor.”[3] The building design was Gothic in style, adorned with the names of famous chemists and pharmacists in raised stone along the cornice of the building: Pasteur, Faraday, Avogadro, Wohler, Schaele, Proust, Cordus, Lavoisier, Perkin, Berzelius, Dalton, Mendeleeff, Curie, Liebig, and then with the 1947 addition, Gibbs, Cavendish, and Power.

This system is economical from the standpoint of cost of installing plumbing, and there is practically no danger in a classroom being damaged by a leak overhead.” The building in 1927 consisting of a 160-foot north wing, three stories in height, with an attic and the one-story main stockroom, but was designed so an additional story for a lecture hall and a laboratory wing could be added which was done in later years.

In the early 1930’s, the one ton bell from the Battleship Florida was installed in a clock atop the roof of Leigh Hall which was struck each hour.

The general chemistry laboratory, which demands considerable stock-room service, will be served through two windows from the main stock room.

Renovations to Leigh Hall were carried out in the 1970’s with the refurbishing of the General and Organic Chemistry teaching laboratories with new benches, hoods and Pyrex drains.

It wasn’t until the 1990’s, with the addition of the new Chemistry Laboratory building, that Leigh Hall was vacated and renovated.

[4] From Dr. Leigh’s dedication speech on December 15, 1926, the time capsule contained a “copper chest with over three score messages from those living to those who will be living centuries hence when it is removed from its ancient seat and the light of an older sun discloses tidings from those long dead.”  The chest also contained the catalogue of the College of Pharmacy, December 15th copy of the Gainesville Sun, histories of the Department of Chemistry and College of Pharmacy, the Jubilee Edition of the American Chemical Society, rosters of the Leigh Chemical Society, Mortar and Pestle Society, the Gamma Sigma Epsilon Fraternity, the Biennium Report of the Dean of the College of Pharmacy, material relating to the Florida State Pharmaceutical Association, the roll of classes in Pharmacy and Chemistry, and laboratory lists.