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   *Massachusetts State College: **1931-1947**
   *University of Massachusetts at Amherst: **1947-**
+===Lost buildings===
+There is likelihood, however, that building remnants related to the initial periods of
+campus growth (1863-1916) do remain. As will be discussed later, several early
+campus buildings burned. Included among these were the Crouch Barn (1872), plant
+house (1883), South College (1885), Hatch experiment station barn (1891), ridge barn (1894), dairy
+building (1906), and the new dairy barn (1908) (Rand 1933:205-211). In many
+instances, the replacement buildings were built atop or immediately adjacent to the
+original building footprints. It is likely that archaeological remains of original
+buildings exist or, at the very least, evidence of the fires remain.
+===First buildings===
+The following buildings, listed chronologically, were erected in the 10 years of
+Clark’s administration (Chadbourne 1867; Hitchcock 1894:173-174, 177-178, 181)
+though three building contracts were let by Chadbourne:
+• Laboratory Building [Chemistry] (1867; $10,360): reported as 46 x 57 feet and
+two stories high. The building contained a room for chemical analysis, 2
+furnace rooms, 4 apparatus rooms, a balance room and a large lecture room
+which could also be used as a chapel (Chadbourne 1867:9; Clark 1868:6) [no
+longer extant].
+• South College Dormitory (1867; $86,280): 100 x 50 feet, 4 stories high. 48
+student rooms, recitation rooms, a cabinet and library room (Chadbourne
+:9; Clark 1868:6). Designed by George Hathorne, Esq., New York (Clark
+:9) [rebuilt, no longer extant].
+• Boarding House (1868; $8,180): house up to 50 students (Chadbourne 1867:9;
+Clark 1868:6) [no longer extant].
+• Botanic Museum (1868; $5,180): 31 x 45 feet, 2 stories. Contains president’s
+office, lecture room, and exhibit spaces (Clark 1868:6) [no longer extant].
+• Durfee Plant Houses (1868; $12,000 donated by Nathan Durfee): 5,000 square
+feet in a cluster of glass buildings (Clark 1868:6-7) designed by F. A. Lord,
+Syracuse, NY [rebuilt, no longer extant].
+• North College Dormitory (1868) [no longer extant].
+• College Barn (1869; $7,000 appropriated in 1868, final cost $10,000): designed
+to be 100 x 50 feet with 28 foot high posts (Clark 1868:7-8; Clark 1870:1-2) [no
+longer extant].
+• College Hall (1869): 60 x 97 feet, 4 stories, designed by George Hathorne,
+New York (Clark 1870:12) [no longer extant].
+• Drill Hall (1869, proposed 1868; $6,500) [no longer extant].
+• Farm Superintendent House (1869; $4,000) [no longer extant].
+• President’s House (1869).
+===19th century through WWI buildings===
+  * Massachusetts State Agricultural Experiment Station (1882): 48 ½ acres
+leased from the College Hitchcock (1894:166, 169).
+• Chemical Laboratory of the State Experiment Station (1883): based plans
+completed by E.A. Ellsworth [no longer extant].
+• North College Dormitory (repaired 1884): $6,000 dollars allotted for these
+repairs and for work on other college buildings (AR 1885:1). The repairs to
+North College included removal and replacement most woodwork on building interior; 4th story rooms repainted; new floors where needed; 12
+new windows (AR 1885:2) [no longer extant].
+• College Chapel (1886; $31,000): housed the college library on its first floor
+along with the President’s office. The second floor, capable of holding 600
+persons, was the scene of Sunday services (Hitchcock 1894:174). Stephen C.
+Earle, Worcester, was the architect for the building (AR 1885:2)
+• Feeding stable and wing (1886): added to the Experimental Station barn.
+Another wing was added to the barn sometime between 1886 and 1894
+(Hitchcock 1894:178, 181) [no longer extant].
+• South College Dormitory (re-built 1886): new building brick, 3 stories, and it
+contained student suites, recitation rooms, and the biology department
+museum. The Hatch Experiment Station office was in the building tower
+along with the meteorological observatory (Hitchcock 1894:174).
+• Creamery (1887): added to the Experimental Station barn (Hitchcock
+(1894:178, 181) [no longer extant].
+• Hatch Experiment Station (1887): following the enactment of the Hatch Act.
+The “act established experiment stations in all the States and Territories of
+the Union…” Hitchcock (1894:170). In 1894, Hatch and the Massachusetts
+Experiment Station were consolidated and made a College department.
+• College pastor’s house (unknown date, before 1894): “across the ravine [from
+the new barns, stables, and dairy school]” (Hitchcock 1894:178) [no longer
+extant].
+• Greenhouse, Hatch Experiment Station (1888): based on plans developed by
+Professor S.T. Maynard. Hitchcock (1894:187) [no longer extant].
+• Barn Sheds (1889): the south shed was cut into two parts and the shorter part
+has been appended to the main barn. Original small engine room, in turn,
+has been to the end of the moved barn shed (AR 1890:12). The remaining half
+of the south shed has been moved west and a new basement constructed
+under it (AR 1890:13) [no longer extant].
+• Dairy Room (1889 redone): existing dairy re-silled, wood floors replaced by
+concrete, and new sewer connections added to take waste water away from
+the facility (AR 1890:12) [no longer extant].
+• Hatch Experiment Station barn (1889): located behind the Boarding House.
+The barn burned in 1891 and was rebuilt the same year (Hitchcock 1894:178).
+• Insectary (1889): entomology department of the Hatch Experiment Station
+(Hitchcock 1894:188) [no longer extant].
+• Silos (1889): two silos occupy the space once used for roots and sand storage
+(AR 1890:14) [no longer extant].
+• Agricultural and Physiology Laboratory (1890): Hitchcock (1894:181) [no
+longer extant].
+• Dairy School with barns, stables (1893, 1894): erected near the center of the
+college “estate and at the foot of the slope west of the campus…” (Hitchcock
+:177) [no longer extant].
+• Laboratory building (modified 1894): expanded to three stories. The first
+floor housed the chapel, the zoology department laboratory, and a section of
+the chemical department. The second floor hosted the mathematical, physical, and chemical departments. Japanese agricultural implements were
+housed on the third floor; earlier it had been used as a drill hall for the cadet
+battalion (Hitchcock 1894:177) [no longer extant].
+• Agricultural Building, later named Stockbridge Hall (1912; $210,000):
+completed in October 1916 with 3 stories and basement, contains auditorium
+seating 900 (AR 1915:17, 19; AR 1916:17)
+• Athletic Field (1914): 7 acres, with five thousand feet of ditch and tile (AR
+:15-16)
+• Department of Rural Engineering Shops (begun 1914): (AR 1915:19) [no
+longer extant].
+• Fraternity, Phi Sigma Kappa House (1914): on Pleasant Street at South
+College Entrance. MAC coordinated water and heating services (AR
+:17).
+• French Hall addition (1914): (AR 1914:18-19).
+• Infirmary (1914, $15,000): two buildings, one with wings for patients and
+matron/nurses and the other for isolation (AR 1915:19) [no longer extant].
+• Piggery and poultry buildings (1914): poultry buildings was added to an
+existing building (AR 1914:18) [no longer extant].

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