Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1895-1896 [PAGE 27]

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BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS

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Engineering Hall has a frontage of 200 feet, a depth of 76 feet on the wings and 138 feet in the center. The middle wing is 72 feet wide. The first story of the west and central wings contains the laboratories of the department of electrical engineering, while the east wing is devoted to masonry laboratories and instrument rooms of the department of civil engineering. The central wing of the second story contains the lecture room and the preparation rooms of the department of physics, the remainder of the floor being used by the departments of civil and municipal engineering for recitation and drawing rooms, cabinets, and studies. The middle wing of the third story contains the laboratories of the department of physics, and the side wings the drawing rooms, lecture rooms, cabinets, and studies of the mechanical department. The central portion contains the library, the office, and the faculty parlor. The fourth story is devoted entirely to the department of architecture, and contains drawing and lecture rooms, cabinets, photo studio, and a blue-print laboratory. The Engineering Laboratory (formerly Machinery Hall) are in a brick building two stories high, 126 feet in length, and 88 feet in width, which contains the laboratory of applied mechanics, the hydraulic laboratory, and the mechanical engineering laboratory. The wood shop of the mechanical engineering department is situated on the second floor of this building. A room on the first floor is reserved as a repair shop, and is in charge of the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds. Machinery Building.—This name will be applied to the building, erected during the fall of 1895, which contains the machine shop, forge shop, and foundry of the Mechanical Engineering Department. It is a one-story brick building, 50 by 250 feet, and contains a lecture room, office rooms, machine shop, foundry, and forge shop. This last is a room 48 by 140 feet. On each side of the machine shop is a line shaft 2£ inches in diameter. A three-ton traveling crane of 12 feet span covers the center of the floor for the entire length, extending over a driveway 10 feet wide at the east end of the shop. The floor of the driveway is paved and is 3 feet below the floor of the machine shop. The foundry comes next to the machine shop, the floor being on the level of the driveway. A large wing extends