University of Iowa - Hawkeye Yearbook (Iowa City, IA)

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Ur1iversity 1. The Central Building, the former State Capitol, is 120 by 00 feet, and two stories in height. It is built of stone, and contains the office of the President and five lecture rooms used by the C ollegiate ment. and the lecture rooms, library and offices of the Law ment. 2. The South Building is of brick, 108 x 45 feet, and three stories in height. The basement contains the laboratories of the Dental ment. On the first floor are the lecture rooms and offices of the same department. The second floor is occupied by recitation rooms, and the third floor by the rooms devoted to Literary Societies. 3. The North Building is 108 x 01 feet, and three stories in height. It is built of brick. The first two floors contain the lecture room and laboratories of chemistry and physics, and the third floor is occupied by the Library and Chapel. 4. The Astronomical Observatory is 60 feet by 26 feet, with a revolving turret 14 feet in diameter It is constructed of brick. 5. The Hospital and Clinical Amphitheatre is 68 feet by 55 feet, and two stories in height. It is constructed partly of brick and partly of wood. 6. The Homeopathic Hospital Building, in the amphitheatre of which the lectures of this department are given, is 40 feet by 25 feet, with a wing of the same size. It is two stories in height, and is structed of brick. The Homeopathic Medical Department is fully equipped with the best apparatus, and the Hospital has a capacity of 12 beds. 7. The West Building is 30 feet by 48 feet, and three stories in height. It is constructed of stone and brick. One story contains steam boilers for heating all of the buildings on the campus, another is used as an armory, while the third contains several recitation rooms. 8. The Pledical Building is 81 feet by 60 feet, and four stories in height, with a French roof. it is constructed of brick, and contains a large amphitheatre for lecture purposes, professors ' rooms, cabinet, libra- ry, physiological laboratory, a chemical laboratory, and extensive dissect- ing rooms. 9. The Natural Science Building is 114 feet by 74 feet, and four stories in height. It is constructed of brick, and contains four large ture rooms, four laboratories, a large museum, and professors ' rooms, and laboratories of Engineering Department.

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10. A new and very commodious Hospital, under control of the ters of Mercy, is available for clinical work of the Medical Department. It contains seventy-five beds, and a large amphitheatre for clinical tures. 11. A new Therrlic,.al Laboratory will be completed and ready for occupation at the beginning of the school year 1891-92. It will be a brick building, three stories in height, and will cost $50,000. 12. The Y. M. C. A. Building will be finished during the coming summer. It is of brick, and will cost $35,000. It will contain a large assembly hall, gymnasium, reading rooms, and bath rooms. 13. The Studeilts ' Observatory is a one story frame building, 14 feet by 20 feet in size. 14. The Ice House is the most important of all the University buildings. It is built on the most approved plan, whitewashed within and without. It is in the Queen Ann style, heated by steam and plied with an electric elevator. This building has a capacity of 40,000 tons of ice, also rooms for the preservation of plucked students. It is under the immediate charge of Rev. James Berry. M A., M.D . D.D.