Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1881-1882 [PAGE 23]

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Buildings and Grounds.

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region of beautiful rolling prairies, with large belts of timber along the streams, and is one of the richest farming districts in the State.

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.

The domain occupied by the University and its several departments, embraces about 623 acres, including stock farm, experimental farm, orchards, nurseries, forest plantations, arboretum, ornamental grounds, and military parade ground. The University buildings, fifteen in number, include a grand Main Building for public use, a spacious Mechanical Building and Drill Hall, a large Chemical Laboratory, a Veterinary Hall, a small Astronomical Observatory, two dormitories, three dwellings, two large barns, and a greeen-house. The Mechanical Building and Drill Hall is of brick, 126 feet in length, and 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; pattern and finishing shops, shops for carpentry and cabinet work, furnished with wood-working machinery; paint and draughting-rooms, and rooms for models, storage, etc. In the second story is the large Drill Hall, 124 by 80 feet, sufficient for the evolutions of a company of infantry or a section of a battery of field artillery. It is also well supplied with gymnastic apparatus. One of the towers contains an armorer's shop and military model room, an artillery room and a band room. The other contains a printing office and editor's room. The Chemical Building, erected in 1878, at a cost, including furniture, of $40,000, contains five laboratories, and is one of the best and largest in the United States.

PBOPERTY AND FUNDS.

Besides its lands, buildings, furniture, library, etc., valued at $400,000, the University owns 25,000 acres of well selected lands in Minnesota and Nebraska. It has also endowment funds invested in State and county bonds amounting to $319,000, besides other property and avails, valued at $33,000. The State has appropriated $25,000 to the Agricultural Department for barns, tools, stock, etc.; $25,000 to the Horticultural Department for green-houses, barns, drainage, tools, trees, etc.; $25,000 for Mechanical and Military Building, machinery, etc.; $127,000 toward the erection of the Main Building, and furnishing the same; $10,500 for Chemical Apparatus; $25,000 for Library; $5,000 for the Apparatus of a Physical Laboratory; $3,000 for a Veterinary Hall, Stable, and Apparatus;