Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1897-1898 [PAGE 27]

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BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS

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and electrical engineering, and the masonry laboratories and instrument rooms of the department of civil engineering. The second story contains the lecture room and the preparation rooms of the department of physics, and the recitation and drawing rooms, cabinets, and studies of the departments of civil and municipal engineering. The third story contains the laboratory of the department of physics, the drawing rooms, lecture rooms, cabinets, and studies of the mechanical departments, as well as the library, the office, and the faculty parlor. The fourth story is devoted to> the department of architecture, and' contains drawing and lecture rooms, cabinets, a photo studio, and a blue-print laboratory. The Wood Shops and Testing Laboratory is two stories high, 126 feet in length, and 88 feet in width, and 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 first floor of this building. The Metal Shops is a one-story brick building, 50 by 250 feet. It contains a lecture room, two office rooms, a machine shop, a foundry, and a forge shop. The machine shop is 48 by 140 feet. Power is brought to this shop from the Wood Shops and Testing Laboratory by a 30-horse power rope drive. A three-ton traveling crane of 12 foot span covers the center of the floor for the entire length, extending over a covered driveway between the machine shop and foundry. The floors of the foundry, cupola room, and forge shop are three feet below the floor of the machine shop. The Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Laboratory is a pressed brick building, two stories high, 100 feet long and 50 feet wide, with a one-story wing 90 feet long and 50 feet wide. There is also a basement under the main part, containing some special testing rooms, store rooms, and the toilet and wash rooms. The Central Heating Station is a brick building, 55 by 120 feet. It contains the apparatus used for heating the