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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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84 Sixteen Years at the University of Illinois 475.60 819.90 111,120.1G 217.57 $253,959.78 McKinley Hospital New Library Tina Weedon Smith Memorial Music Hall Natural History Addition . Total Up to the end of the fiscal year 1917-18 approximately $4,498,147.45 had been spent for the buildings at present occupied by the University. Of this sum, $1,153,390, or about 26 per cent was expended for buildings erected during the 37 years from 1867 to 1904, and $3,344,757.45, or about 74 per cent, for buildings constructed during the fourteen year period from 1904 ±o 1918. Of the buildings erected during the past twelve years, six ~were constructed in 1905, at a total expense of $187,000, with funds secured in 1903. If this sum is added to the $1,153,390 spent prior to 1905, the total becomes $1,340,390 for the first 37 years of the life of the University. But this is offset by the fact that $500,000 was secured from the Legislature in 1917, to be spent during the biennium beginning July 1, 1917. It will be observed that during the past sixteen years, sixteen important buildings have been erected. Of this number, three are buildings of general university use, the Auditorium, costing $136,000; the new Armory, $230,000; and the Administration building, $146,000. Two are designed to serve the interests of the Women students—the Woman's building, costing $217,000, and the Women's Residence Hall erected at a cost of approximately $180,000. The study of the humanities was i r s t adequately provided for by the erection of Lincoln Hall in 1911, at a cost of $235,000. The scientific interests of the university were given support in the erection of substantial additions to the Natural History building and the Chemistry laboratory, costing $165,000 and $365,000 respectively, and a Vivarium costing $76,000. To the engineering group there were added a Physics laboratory costing $220,000; a Transportation building, $86,000 and a Ceramics laboratory, $131,000. The agricultural group was enlarged by the erection of many minor buildings and two major structures—a Floriculture Plant
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