It was home to the University of Denver Pioneers ice hockey team, and also hosted several Frozen Fours.

It was razed in 1997 to make room for the $75 million Magness Arena, part of the Ritchie Center for Sports and Wellness, which opened in 1999.

The structure was originally a U.S. Navy drill hall in northern Idaho, built in the early 1940s at Farragut Naval Training Station at Lake Pend Oreille.

[1] It was donated after World War II and reassembled on the DU campus in 1948–49 to house the new ice hockey program and served for nearly half a century.

Additional patchwork renovations were added in the 1990s, prior to razing the building in 1997.