UIHistories Project: A History of the University of Illinois by Kalev Leetaru
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The University.

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seums. The chapel wing affords a large physical laboratory and lecture-room, and spacious draughting-rooms. In the main part are thirty class rooms of good size, cloak and wash-rooms for both sexes, store rooms, and several large halls for students' literary societies.

MECHANICAL BUILDING ANP DRILL HALL.

The Mechanical Building and Drill Hall (see Map, page 61, C) is of brick, 128 feet in length by 88 feet in width. It contains a boiler, forge and tank room; a machine shop, furnished for practical use, with a steam engine, lathes and other machinery; a pattern and finishing shop ; shops for carpentry and cabinet work, furnished with woodworking machinery; paint, printing and draughting-rooms, and rooms for models, storage, etc. In the second story is the large Drill Hall, 120 by 80 feet, sufficient for the evolutions of a company of infantry, or a sfiction of a battery of field artillery. One of the towers contains an armorer's shop and military model room, an artillery room and a band room.

GREEN-HOUSE.

The Green-House (page 61, B) 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 40. The University has two large and valuable barns (see page 61, J and G,) belonging to the stock and experimental farms, and four dwelling houses for the superintendents.