Loyola University Maryland - Evergreen / Green and Gray Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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been placed on this floor to be as nearly central as possible for the use of this building. Two smaller class rooms have been placed towards the campus on the north side of this building. In connection with the Lecture Amphitheatre is an Apparatus Room and Microscope Room for the preparation of experiments to be demonstrated from the Instructor’s table in the centre of the room The third floor, which extends only over the central portion of the building, contains the Biological Laboratory and Lecture Room; the latter having stepped The Garden, Paralleling the Science Building 6

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The George C. Jenkins Science Building (To the courtesy of Mr. Lucius R. White, Jr., President of the Otto G. Simonson Co., Architects, we are indebted for the following- article.) HE George C. Jenkins Science Building is the first building of the new Loyola College group to be erected at Evergreen on Charles Street Avenue and Cold Spring Lane (the proposed Loyola Parkway). The group of buildings, of which the Science Building is the first unit, will be composed of six buildings around a campus and a seventh (The Alumni Hall and Gymnasium) adjoining the Athletic Field. These are designed and carried out with a true Gothic feeling, as is shown in the delicate work of the main entrance doorway. The new group of buildings will harmonize with the character of the magnificent residence which was in existence on the property, when the site was purchased. The Science Building will eventually be devoted entirely to the teaching of Chemistry and is the most modern and up-to-date building to be erected for this purpose. It is built of Marvilla Marble and Beaver Dam Stone, quarried between Texas and Cockeysville, Md. The placing of the Science Building in the group, and in fact the key-note for the main axis of the group itself, has a bearing on the formal garden and avenue of poplars which this building overlooks towards the south. The main entrance to the building is on the north side from the campus into a spacious vestibule leading on the left into the Reception Room and also into the stair hall and main corridor. The main or ground floor consists of General, Analytic and Organic Chemistry Laboratories so grouped and arranged that there is minimum of corridor space, likewise the most convenient for access from one room or another. Offices for the Professors are located between the laboratories; in addition, rooms have been provided for the generation of Hydrogen Sulphide Gas and a large Balance Room for delicate work, one pier being constructed from the ground on a separate foundation. Rooms for the Professors, Students’ Supplies and Lockers are also provided on this floor. The second floor contains a laboratory in the east wing directly over the General Chemistry Laboratory which, for the present, will be devoted to the teaching and study of Physics; it is equipped, however, for the conversion into an additional General Chemistry Laboratory, when the time arrives, with a minimum effort and expense. In the west wing a Lecture Amphitheatre is situated having a seating capacity for seventy-two students. Between these two large units, in the central part of the building on this floor, is a large Recitation Room and Museum. A Professor’s office has been placed between the Physics Laboratory and Recita- tion Room. A Photographic Dark Room and Instrument Room are located adjacent to the Physics Laboratory. A large reference Library and Reading Room has 5

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seats accommodating sixty-seven students. A Professor’s Room, Library, Dis- secting Room and Store Room have been arranged on this floor in connection with the Biology Department. In the basement a temporary Boiler and Fuel Room has been provided, the space for which will be used as an additional store room when the central heating plant is completed in the Engineering Building which will, in the scheme of things. West of the Science Building be similar and opposite the Science Building towards the north property line. A Combination Room has been provided for experimental work at high tempera- tures. Store rooms, work rooms, a General Locker room and large wash room are conveniently arranged with reference to the central stairway. Access to the boiler room is had from the southeast corner where a temporary roadway will be installed for the delivery of coal and supplies. In addition to the heating plant there has 7