4 STATE coi.LEGE or KENTUCKY. ,-
GROUNDS.
The campus of the College consists of fifty-two acres of land, located
within the corporate limits of Lexington. The South Limestone Street ·
electric car line extends along the greater part of its western border,
giving opportunity to reach in a few minutes any part of the city. The
campus is laid out in walks, drives, and lawns, and is planted with a
choice variety of native and exotic trees and shrubs, to which additions
are constantly being made. A portion of the land has recently been
reserved for a botanical garden, in which will be grown the most desir-
able native plants, with a view to testing their adaptability to cultiva- Y
tion, and to give increased facilities to students taking agricultural and
biological courses. Two and a half acres, forming the northeast portion
of the campus, inclosed and provided with a grand stand, is devoted to
the field sports of students.
About three quarters of a mile south of the campus, on the Nich— .
olasville pike, an extension of South Limestone Street, is the Exper-
iment Station Farm, consisting of two hundred and three acres, to which
sixty—four and a half acres have been added by recent purchase. Here
the field experiments of the Station are conducted, and students have
opportunities to witness tests of varieties of field crops, dairy tests
fertilizer tests, fruit-spraying tests, in short, all the scientific experiv
mentation of a thoroughly equipped and organized Station. The front
of the farm is pasture and orchard. The back portion is divided off
j into two hundred one-tenth acre plots, for convenience in making crop
tests.
BUILDINGS.
The main college building is a structure of stone and brick, 140 feet
long and 68 feet in width. It contains the ofiice of the President and
of the Business Agent, and on the third floor, counting the basement r
I floor as one, is the chapel, in which each day the students and Faculty _
meet, and in which are held public gatherings and such other meetings
as bring together the entire student body. The remaining space in this
building is occupied by recitation rooms and by the society rooms of the
students.
The Station building is a handsome structure, well planned for the `
object for which it was made. It is seventy feet in length by fifty—fou1‘ ‘
feet in width, with a tower projection in front, and an octagonal projec-
tion eighteen by eighteen on the north side. The building is two stories
high, and a basement eleven feet from floor to ceiling. The mai11
entrance is on the f1rst floor, on the west side of the building, through
an archway fifteen feet wide. The basement is occupied in part by the ,
Station and in part by the College. The next floor above is devoted to »
office and laboratory work of the Station, while the upper fioor accom-
modates the College work in Chemistry.
The building devoted to Mechanical Engineering covers altogether
an area of about 2o,ooo feet, is constructed of stone and pressed brick, ,