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Caption: Dedication - Beckman Institute
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plus 50 laboratory equipment support rooms. Bridges will span the atrium in three locations and connect the north and south wings of the institute building. Tlie total complex is designed to accommodate up to 660 individuals in office space and at laboratory work stations. Also within its planned 310,000 square feet the Beckman Institute will include a 250-seat auditorium featuring state-ofthe-art audio/visual equipment, as well as three seminar rooms to hold up to 100 persons. An architectural model of the Beckman Institute viewed from the southeast. he Beckman Institute will be built on the site of the University's first building, long since demolished. M The site is on the north end of campus at Illinois Held, a baseball field just south of University Avenue and east of Wright Street in Urbana. When the U of I first opened its doors as the Illinois Industrial University in 1868, it consisted of a single building that the trustees had purchased from a seminary and ordered remodeled. Students were housed in a dormitory on the top floor of the building. The structure also contained classrooms, a lecture hall, laboratory, museum and library. The capacity of the building soon was overwhelmed by the growing university, and the campus's activities moved to newer quarters. Practically abandoned, the old building fell into disrepair and its demolition began in 1881. The grounds on and around which it stood eventually became Illinois Field, scene of intercollegiate football and baseball games. In 1910 it was the site of the first collegiate Homecoming ever
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