This page is for a list of key resources that will help the description process.

• Step by step instructions for cataloging photos for the project can be found via Google Docs here

• Location of encoded authorities: W:\university_photographs_project\authorities
• Location of MODS XML templates: W:\university_photographs_project\templates

• University Photos in Credo| Go here to search existing University Photo collection. | hint: to find an exact image, you must type the MODS filename without the '.xml', e.g “murg150-i0003928”.

*SCUA Name Authority Tool| Use this tool to search for previously authorized versions of names and add newly authorized names.

• List of faculty members
• List of Presidents
• List of Chancellors
• General Catalogue of Mass Aggie| Includes officers of government and instructors for 1863-1886.
• 1916 Index with photos of old buildings| On the occasion of UMass' 50th Anniv. See pp 31-50.
• Campus Memorials and Tributes
• Links to Yearbooks on Archive.org| via the YouMass wiki.
• UMass Archives finding aid
• You Mass wiki| For historical info on well known figures and buildings at Umass. Still growing.
• Concordance| A comprehensive alphabetical index of UMass departments, programs, and other units, including acronyms
• Massachusetts Agricultural College in the War (1921)| A full-text searchable book of students who fought during World War I.

• Massachusetts Agricultural College: 1863-1931
• Massachusetts State College: 1931-1947
• University of Massachusetts at Amherst: 1947-

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.

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: 20 • 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 1867:9; Clark 1868:6). Designed by George Hathorne, Esq., New York (Clark 1869:9) [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).

• 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 1894:177) [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 1915:15-16) • 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 1915:17). • 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].