The Armory/Red Gym is one of the oldest buildings at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

[University of Wisconsin Archives. Armory/Red Gym. 1899.]

Charles R. Van Hise (1857-1918) 

[University of Wisconsin Photographic History, Volume 1.]

“I shall never be content until the beneficent influence of the University reaches every family of the state.”

~ UW President Charles Van Hise in 1905