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6 STATE COLLEGE OF KENTUCKY.
practically fire-proof; with long and wide porches and with a large closet in , L
every room; with adequate provision for light, heat, ventilation and exer-
cise, this hall offers to 122 occupants, two in a room, everything needed for
their health, safety, convenience, comfort and physical culture.
Cost of ground, building and equipment, $60,000.
Normal Hall.—A new building, which promises to be the handsomest
. on the campus, has been erected for the use of the Normal Department and
the School of Domestic Science, and will soon be ready for occupancy.
The construction is of pressed brick and Bedford stone, and the design fol-
lows the most approved style of modern school architecture. The building
contains ten class-rooms, a study—room for young women and one for young
men, a department library-room, two ofiices and a very large room for the
Normal Literary Society. The completion of this building supplies a long
felt need of the Normal School, and it marks the most important step in the ,
twenty-seven years of its history.
Agricullural Hall.-—This building, for the erection of which provision V
was made by the Board of Trustees at their meeting in December, 1906, will
be ready for use in September, 1907. Designed to be a wing of the larger
structure which the Department will no doubt eventually require, it is to be
in height three stories besides the basement; in size, 45 x 100 feet, and built , ,
of pressed brick and Bedford stone. The site selected for it is on South
Limestone Street and the city railway and near the south-west corner of
the College campus.
The basement is to contain large rooms arranged for farm machinery,
general farm mechanics, potting and propagating, and for the heating plant.
On the first floor will be the office of the Dean of the Department, the general
and advanced plant laboratories, the horticultural lecture-room and horti-
cultural laboratory; on the second fioor the offices of the division of animal _
husbandry, and an attractive reading room and society hall. The third
· floor will provide space for an agricultural museum, a commodious hall for
the State Grange and other agricultural society meetings and exhibitions
and a photographic laboratory. The cost of this wing will be $20,000 or
‘ more.
The Librzzrj/.—This building, which is due to the munificence of that
prince of public benefactors, Andrew Carnegie, is to be completed by the first
of October, 1907. It is to be placed on the court between the Main Building
and the President’s House, to be 56 feet square, two stories high including the
tall basement of range-ashlars, to be built of pressed brick, trimmed with
terra cotta, and to cost $27,500.
DEVELOPM ENT.
The growth of the College from year to year is shown as follows:
1862. To establish and endow a college, chiefly for instruction in agriculture and thc
mechanic arts, an act of Congress apportioned to each State, for each oi its Senators and
Representatives in Congress, 30,000 acres of the public land.
1865. The General Assembly of Kentucky having accepted the State‘s portion under
he conditions prescribed, established the Agricultural and Meclianical College, making it