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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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50 Sixteen Tears at the University of Illinois In 1917, three lots having a total frontage of 180 feet on Nevada Street between Goodwin and Mathews Avenues Urbana, were purchased, and a residence upon one of these lots was assigned temporarily as the President's House, the former official residence of the President having been given over to other uses. It is the intention to use these lots in the future as a site for another residence hall for women students.28 A lot on Sixth Street, Champaign, directly west of the Administration Building was purchased in 1917 to serve as a site for a University Press building which should house the courses in Journalism, the print shop, the office of the University publications, and the University Press. 29 In 1907 a farm of 40 acres was purchased and another of 40 acres in 1911.30 These two purchases gave the University possession of all of section 19 except the south half of the two south quarters. In 1913-14 five tracts of farm land were purchased, containing respectively 13, 160, 40, 80 and 40 acres— a total of 333 acres.30 The 13 acre tract lies east of the cemetery and therefore unites the so-called South Farm with the 160 acre tract given the University in 1867. The other four purchases constitute the west half of Section 20 and therefore are east of and contiguous to the South Farm. Between September, 1917, and April, 1918, the University purchased as a site for the new McKinley student hospital a group of six lots which include the entire frontage on Armory Avenue between Third and Arbor Streets to a depth of 174 feet. Also a lot on Stoughton Street was added to the Education Building site, and two pieces of tenant property on Harvey Street were purchased. 31 In 1915 three tracts of farm land comprising a total of thirty-two and a half acres lying south of the City of Champaign, west of Fourth Street, were purchased by the University. 32 The University purchased in 1916 a farm of 84 acres directly west of the original "South Farm.**33 "•Mia., Bd. of Trustees, U. of HI., 1916-18, pp. 239, 252, 340, 545 "Mm., Bd. of Trustees, U. of HI.. 1916-18, pp. 333, 512 ••Comptroller's Report, U. of HI., 1914, pp. 51-52 "Comptroller's Bcport, U. of HI., 1918, pp. 91-92 "Sept, Univ. of HI., 1916, p. 779 •Min. of Bd. of Trustees, U. of HI., 1916-18, pp. 137, 180
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