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APPENDIX

A P P E N D I X B— Continued BUILDINGS-1868-1916

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of $15,030, total cost $190,000. Agronomy Building, authorized Jane, 1904, erected 1905; contract cost, with Beef Cattle Barns and Hdrti* cultural Field Laboratory, $50,500, total cost $59,000. Entomology Building, authorized and erected 1905; contract cost $5,000, of which $3,000 from State, $2,000 from agricultural funds, total cost $8,000. Auditorium, authorised June, 1905, erected 1908; contract cost $115,961.58 ($20,000 allowed In excess of contract), permanent additions to value of $27,192 (Including organ), total cost $148,143.58. Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, erected 1905; total cost $36,000. Farm Mechanic*, authorized April, 1906, erected 1907-11; contract cost $31,082 (not including $2,414 for plumbing and heating), total cost $33,000. Natural History Building, authorized July, 1908, erected 1909; contract cost $120,672 ($5,000 beyond contract included), permanent additions to value of $6,650, total cost $245,000. Physics Building, authorized July, 1908, erected 1908; contract cost $175,626 (not including $50,000 for fixtures), total cost $225,000. Ceramics, authorized November, 1909, erected 1910, occupied 1911; contract cost $40,331, total cost $41,966.85. Lincoln Hall, authorized April, 1910, erected 1911; contract cost $221,700 (not including $40,000 for fixtures), total cost $261,700. Commerce Building, authorized October, 1910, erected 1912; contract cost $89,980, permanent additions to value of $4,300, total cost $100,000. New Armory, authorized June, 1911, erected 1915; contract cost $100,000, total cost $229,119.17, eventual cost $250,000. Transportation Building, authorized December, 1911, erected 1912; contract cost $83,250, additions to value of $3,000, total cost $86,250. Ceramics and Mining Laboratories, authorized December, 1911, built 1912; contract cost and total cost, including $3,000 for kiln house, $29,019.12. Locomotive Testing Laboratory, authorized and built 1912; total cost $25,000. Stock Pavilion, authorized January, 1913, built 1913; contract cost $80,000 exclusive of fixtures, total cost $113,000. Administration Building, authorized August, 1914, erected 1915; contract cost $110,608, permanent additions to value of $2,673, total cost $154,715 (contract let in combination with Chemistry Addition). Ceramics, contract let June, 1915, building erected 1915; cost by contract $78,530 (exclusive of $20,318 for heating, plumbing, etc.), total cost $120,880.50. Vivarium, authorized June, 1915, erected 1916; contract cost $28,952 (exclusive of $13,031 for plumbing, heating, furnishings, etc.), total cost $55,204.93. Chemistry Addition, authorized August, 1915, erected 1916; total cost of building $360,956, furniture and equipment $96,300, cost with old building $540,956. Among minor buildings erected between 1908 and 1915 are the Genetics Building, total cost $11,127; Dairy bams and buildings, total cost $23,000; buildings for floriculture, vegetable and plant breeding, total cost $86,000; minor agricultural buildings, total cost $12,000; and the new Power Plant total cost (witb mains, etc.) $185,000. The chief buildings under construction since 1916 are the Women's Residence Hall, to cost about $150,000 (unfurnisb ed) ; Education Building, to cost abou t $205,000; and Smith Memorial Music Building, to cost, without organ, about $265,000.