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Diamond Village

Quick Facts

Office Ph# — (352)392-6082
Opened — 1959
Units:
1 bedrooms — 104
2 bedrooms — 104
Location — See Map
AC — central

Emory Gardner Diamond Memorial Village was built to house married students and their families who were displaced when Flavet I and II were closed in August 1965. Emory Diamond was President of the University of Florida Student Body (1950-51), Clerk of the Honor Court (1949-50), and Mayor of Flavet Village II (1949).

While President of the Student Body, Diamond lobbied for an increase in the student activity fee to support the new student union building later called the J. Wayne Reitz Union. He encouraged establishment of a Student Traffic Court — still in existence — and served as member and manager of the Gator Band. Diamond is credited with initiating the concept of bloc seating for students at the football stadium and for offering planned and monitored student government exchanges and activities in an attempt to curb negative rivalry between University of Miami and University of Florida fans. Diamond graduated with honors in September 1950 and died 9 years later in a private airplane crash.

Facilities:

• 2-story masonry with brick veneer buildings
• Commons building with a manager’s office, laundry, recreation/study room
• Playgrounds
• 1-bedroom apartment square footage: 522
• 2-bedroom apartment square footage: 714

Major renovations were completed in 2005 which upgraded this facility to central air and heat as well as modernized the sprinkler and fire alarm systems.

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