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Caption: Book - 30 Year Master Plan (Tilton & O'Donnell)
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TPo History of Campus Plan Dean Ketchum's report of March 17 on their building needs suggests that the Materials Testing and Hydraulics laboratory be located east of the present College of Engineering buildings fronting on Green Street. If the building of new buildings for the College of Engineering during the next biennium involves the acquisition of property upon which to build them, there is no use including them in our program. If we are willing to assign to Engineering for use as rapidly as need be the area bounded by Burrill Avenue, Green Street, Wright Street, and Springfield Avenue, with an ultimate possibility on developing north on Illinois Field, I see no need of acquiring additional property. In accordance with this recommendation the Materials Testing Laboratory was located in the area between Burrill Avenue and Wright Street. The Supervising Architect was directed to prepare the necessary plans and specifications for this building. Since it was to be the first permanent unit in this area on the west side of Burrill Avenue, and, moreover, since it is proposed to rearrange and rebuild, at some future time, the old Engineering structures on the east side of the Avenue so as to form a new quadrangle, it was decided to design the Materials Testing Laboratory in the Georgian style, in conformity to the new Campus architecture. In 1927, an appropriation was also made for the completion of Lincoln Hall, but as this did not involve a new site it has not materially affected the Campus scheme. Architecturally, the addition is in the same style as the original unit, thereby preserving the character and harmony of the old quadrangle between Green Street and the Auditorium.
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