formed one of Miami's urban legends, that benefactor Laura Louise Ogden Whaling wished for a wall to be built around Ogden Hall to keep it private. Rumors abounded that Miami built the wall, but underground. However, the underground wall was simply an original part of the Herron foundation. The gym was coeducational until 1931, when it became a women's gym due to the construction of Withrow Court, which was a male-only gym. After the change, students petitioned the Board of Trustees to rename the building Herron Hall, which they approved in June 1932. The building was used continuously as a women's gym until 1962, except for a brief time during World War II when the gym served as barracks for the Navy Radio School that operated at Miami. In 1962, Miami constructed a new women's recreational facility and transferred the Herron Hall name to that building, which would later be renamed Phillips Hall in honor of Margaret Phillips, director of women's physical education at Miami for over 40 years. The gym then became known as Van Voorhis Hall or Old Herron. The new namesake of this gym was Thomas Van Voorhis, Miami's longtime director of intramural sports. After 1962, the building was primarily used by Miami's AFROTC program and men's intramural sports. Until the building's demolition, it also held a yearly student art show. Van Voorhis Hall was added under its original name to the National Register of Historic Places in November 1979, but was ordered to be demolished by an 8–1 vote from the Board of Trustees in 1986. The former gym was replaced with a parking lot near the current site of Roudebush Hall, the university's administration building. Van Voorhis' daughter noted in a letter to the school that the gym, then Miami's oldest academic building "...stuck out like a sore thumb", and said her father would have wished to see it torn down. Sergio Sanabria, a Miami architecture professor, disagreed and called the push to demolish the building "irresponsible" as it was still structurally sound and the cost of renovation would have been comparatively inexpensive. Other faculty said that Herron served as an important part of Miami's identity as the coaching classes held there played a protracted role in developing the Cradle of Coaches at Miami. Facilities Herron Gymnasium consisted of two floors and a basement. The first floor held two classrooms and the chapels for the