Bynum Hall (formerly Bynum Gymnasium) is the current home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate Admissions office and was the first home of North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team. At an executive meeting on October 2, 1903, it was revealed that school President Francis Preston Venable announced that former North Carolina Supreme Court justice William Preston Bynum donated $25,000 to have a gymnasium built in honor of his grandson who was a student at the university and had died due to typhoid fever. Architect Frank P. Milburn drafted plans for the structure, which were then approved by Bynum and the university's Board of Trustees. The building was designed to have a Greek architecture influence and had three stories with an above-ground basement. It originally contained a swimming pool, gymnasium. office spaces, and other rooms for various sports like boxing and fencing. Construction was expected to begin in mid-May, but construction was delayed because the company supplying the bricks were not organized. The building had started construction by June and had various target dates that were pushed back for undisclosed reasons and eventually the building was completed in February 1905. Background and construction On October 2, 1903, during an executive University committee meeting on hosted in Governor Daniel Lindsay Russell's office, school President Francis Preston Venable revealed former North Carolina Supreme Court justice William Preston Bynum donated $25,000 to the school to build a gymnasium. The donation was made in honor of Bynum's late grandson William Preston Bynum Jr. who died on vacation after becoming sick with typhoid fever before the close of his sophomore year after attending between 1889 and 1890. The building was officially announced by Dr. Eben Alexander to students in the chapel the same day to "vigorous and prolonged applause." The University had expressed desire before Bynum's donation about needing a gymnasium for faculty and students. News outlets reported different sites intentionally for the gym's location. Plans were to be started at once and then sent to Bynum for approval before construction could begin quickly. It was hoped that the construction would be completed by September 1904. At the time it was the second largest gift ever to the university, after a $38,000 donation by Mary Ann Smith. Venable commented that: "The University is getting along finely in every way and we are greatly cheered by Judge Bynum's gift." Architect Frank P.