Two structures on the university campus have been named Jefferson Hall. The first was a “pavilion” on top of the Hill, just in front of the current location of Ayres Hall. This structure was built in 1902 at the insistence of Philander P. Claxton, the head of the Summer School of the South, for the debut year of the summer school. Claxton insisted that the pavilion, really an open shed-like structure, be able to accommodate one thousand. It had rows of bolted-together seats. Brown Ayres, who became president in 1904, considered this temporary pavilion “an exceedingly irritating feature of our landscape” (1911) and wanted it razed. It was razed in 1921, since the contractors who were using it as a warehouse during the construction of Ayres Hall no longer needed it. The wood from the building was acquired by the UT Vocational Department from the contractors who razed the structure and was used to build two poultry colony houses and an 80-foot laying house near Morgan Hall.