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Caption: Dedication - Engineering Hall (1894) (and Inauguration of President Draper)
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ENGINEERING HALL. Mis TOR V. After a careful consideration of the needs of the University, the board of trustees asked the Thirty-Eighth General Assembly of the State of Illinois to appropriate $160,000, with which to erect and equip a building for the College of Engineering. The appropriation was made by an act approved June 6, 1893, in force July 1, 1893. At its meeting of J u n e 7, 1893, the board of trustees directed its committee, on buildings and grounds, of which Messrs. Bullard, Morgan, and Morrison were the members, to secure plans for the new building, and two days later the committee called for designs, to be presented June 30th, restricting the call, in compliance with a request made by alumni of the University, to graduates from the course in architecture. F o u r premiums were offered, one of $500, one of $300, one of $200, and one of $100. Fifteen plans were received. T h a t presented by George W . Bullard, '82, of Tacoma, Washington, was awarded the first premium at a meeting of the board of trustees held July 5, 1893, and Mr. Bullard was made the architect of the building. After some changes, which were found advisable, had been made in the accepted plans, specifications were prepared and the committee advertised for bids to be presented September n t h . T h e committee found the bids unsatisfactory, and recommended to the board of trustees at its meeting the following day that they be rejected. T h e committee also recommended that the southeast part of the arboretum be chosen as the site for the building. Both recommendations were adopted, and bids were 53
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