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Caption: Course Catalog - 1882-1883
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22 Illinois Industrial University. 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, 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 green-house. The Main University Building, designed wholly for public uses, occupies three sides of a quadrangle, the frontage being 214 feet and upon the wings 122 feet. The Library wing is fire-proof and contains in spacious halls the Museum of Natural History, the Library, the Art Gallery, and the Museum of Engineering. The Chapel wing contains the Chapel, the Physical Laboratory and Lecture Room, and rooms for draughting and drawing. In the main front are convenient class-rooms; on the upper floor, elegant halls for literary societies. The building is warmed by steam from a boiler house which forms the fourth side of the quadrangle in the rear. The Mechanical Building and Drill Half 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 supplied with gymnastic apparatus. One of the towers contains an armoror's shop and an artillery 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. PEOPEETY 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
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