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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1873
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20 halls for students' literary societies. This building will be occupied in September next. The Mechanical Building and Drill Hall (see map C,) is of brick, 128 feet in length by 88 feet in width. It contains a boiler, forgeand tank room; a maMechanical JBuilding and Drill Hall. Chine Shop,fur- nished for practical use with a steam engine, lathes and other machinery; a pattern and finishing shop j shops for carpentry and cabinet work furnished with wood-working machinery; paint, printing and draughting rooms, and rooms for models, storage, etc. In the second story is the large prill Hall, 120 by 80 feet, suf_:0mmm ficient for the evolutions of a fh company of infantry, or a Tft section of a battery of field j |s artillery. One of the towers =J' contains an armorer's shop and military model room, an artillery room and a band room. The green house, (see Green House. map B7) is 70 feet by 36, and contains potting, seed and furnace rooms. There are two other green houses; one 12 feet by 35, the other 22 by 10. T h e University has two large and valuable barns,(see maps J and G-,) belonging to the Stock and t h e Experimental Farms, and 4 dwelling houses for the Superintendents. The Farm House recently built on t h e Horticultural Grounds was deFdvm House.
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