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Caption: Course Catalog - 1874-1875
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18 Illinois Industrial LOCATION. University. The University is situated in the City of Urbana, adjoining the limits of the City of Champaign, in Champaign County, Illinois. It is one hundred and twenty-eight miles from Chicago on the Illinois Central Railroad. The Indianapolis, Bloomington and Western Railway passes near the grounds. The county is one of the most beautiful j.rairie regions in the West. The two contiguous cities, constituting really only one community, have together a population of nearly 10,ooo, well supplied with churches and schools, and affording boarding facilities for a large body of students. BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. The domain occupied by the University (see map of grounds, page 3 of cover) embraces about 623 acres including stock farm, experimental farm, orchards, gardens, nurseries, forest plantations, arboretum, botanic garden, ornamental grounds, and military parade ground. The old University Building, now occupied partly by chemical laboratory, contains some eighty dormitories for students. It is 125 feet in length, and five stories in height, with a wing of 40 by 80 feet, four stories in height. The building was donated by the county. ( See cut on last cover page.) The Xew University Building, (see page 17,) LIBRARY is one of the most spacious and convenient to LECTURE ROOM RfADING ROOM 51 X 6 / be found on this continent. It is 214 feet in "71X6/ length, with a depth on the wings of 122 feet. L_ IHJELEI It is designed wholly for & HMMI ^M*** T *^T ^ H ~—T iniray -,--*.P*_^ .f _--ir* public use. The library wing is fire-proof, and contains five large halls amm m (UTRITI v\~\s OF XEW BUILDING—2XD FLOOR. devoted to the library and various cabinets and museums. T h e 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. The Mechanical Building and Drill Hall is of brick, 12S 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 section 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.
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