Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Transit Yearbook (Troy, NY)

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TRANSIT. VOL. XLIII I5 C GQ, ,QM wield . lk? , 'JI -ii.: Blew! ,R .i it I Wifi, Uhr Ninn fdnatitnir I INCE the year IBZ4 many changes have occurred in the growth of the Institute. The present finds it Hourishing as it never has before, with new buildings in use and others under course of construction. Thru many years of misfortune and trouble, which resulted from fires and poverty, the Institute h-as struggled. In 1824 the school occupied one building, and even that was some place of business. Frequent changes occurred in the site of the Institute. Such places as the old Bank place, the Van- der Heyden mansion, the Infant School lot, the Provincial Seminary, the Vail Building were its abodes for forty years. Thru the generosity of Mr. Joseph P. Warren in donating a piece of ground on Eighth street, the beginning of a more permanent home for the Institute was made possible. On that property, thru the efforts of the officers and good friends of the Institute, the old main building was completed in 1864, and the Winslow Chemical Laboratory in IS66. Shortly thereafter the Ranken I-louse and ground, located directly across Eighth street, were procured, and in i878 the Proudfit Physical Laboratory was completed. In ISS7 th-e Gymnasium, located on the corner of Broadway and the Institute alley, was built, and in IS93 the Alumni building was erected, but placed in the heart of the city. In i904 a great loss came to the Institute in the total destruction by fire of the main building. This loss made it necessary for the Institute to use the old chemical laboratory and Ranken House, as well as a couple of floors of the Bank building on River street, and, as the student body was rather large, these quarters were very much cramped. Si-nce l905 great changes for the better have come to the Institute. In the spring of I906 two new buildings sprang

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Prouclllt Laboratory Carnegie Hall Walker Chemical Laboratory