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== History ==
The campus is located in the center of Temple Terrace, Florida, along the banks of the Hillsborough River. It is surrounded by the Temple Terrace Golf and Country Club, a private country club that opened in 1922. The school occupies land that originally belonged to the club; the college's Sutton Hall was the club's original clubhouse, built in 1922 and one of the oldest buildings in the city. Another historic structure, the circa-1926 Club Morocco Nightclub and Casino (which was connected to Sutton Hall by a now-defunct prohibition-era tunnel), was used as the college's student center until it was razed in 2018 to be replaced by the college's Quad. The primary function of the student center, being the campus mail room, was relocated to the Riverview Center beneath Henderson Dining Hall. Tampa architect M. Leo Elliott was the architect for both buildings which were part of the original Temple …
