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Caption: Book - History of the University (Powell)
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Illinois Considers Disposition of Donation 207 "The Urbana and Champaign Institute is a substantial brick building, with stone foundation, standing on a beautiful elevation of ground, about one-half mile from the Illinois Central railroad at Champaign City, and about an equal distance from Urbana, the county seat of Champaign County, The whole structure is beautiful in its architectural proportions, and very imposing in its appearance. "The main building is 125 feet front, by 40 feet in depth, and five stories high. Prom the center a wing projects, 44 by 70 feet, four stories high. The front wall has a projection eight feet by forty, with pilasters and towers ornamenting the corners. The stories are from 10-14 feet in height. The inside of the building is unfinished, and may be somewhat modified from the original plan, if desired, as to size and number of rooms. "The original plan contemplated some 85 or 90 dormitories, or studentsy rooms, 10 by 15 each with suitable rooms for the principal and professors, large and commodious recitation, painting and society rooms; ample dining room and chapel with basement, kitchen, and cellar, halls and storage rooms, amounting to one hundred and seventy or eighty rooms in all with accommodations for from four to six hundred students. Accommodations for a much larger number of day students could easily be provided by reducing the number of dormitories. The walls are without crack or blemish, and the whole structure is very substantially built. The building is under the contract to be wholly finished, complete and entire, at the expense of the county in the early part of the coming summer. "The farm, of one hundred acres, is contiguous to the building, and is a handsomely elevated tract of land, with a stream of living water running through it. "We have examined the abstract of title to these grounds and find the title perfect, and in a condition to be conveyed unincumbered. "The building and grounds are admirably adapted to the purposes of the Industrial University, and the surrounding country is most charming. This offer to the State indicates the thrift and enterprise of the people.
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