University of Illinois - Illio Yearbook (Urbana Champaign, IL)

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4m ' Harker Hall, built in 1878, was originally Chemistry Hall. Looking north onto the campus in the L890's shows tha though Champaign was growing, fences were still needed 20

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The main building was wrecked by a wind storm in 1880. Completed in 1873, University Hall had large rooms on the V-hanging l aC6 Ol CaPipUS t op floor for student activities. Gregory had seen to this. , t. »« -• W - ' .? .. '• ! t L. Burs, j ' iiMfl'' - -12 : ? ft . . - r - '; »•• jr. r- W ■ a.; •

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Under Draper, Campus Becomes Golf Course In 1868 the campus contained one building, the Elephant ' which was located on the pres- ent baseball diamond. The demands of the Uni- versity soon prompted construction of Univer- sity Hall and the Drill Hall on higher ground south of the Boneyard. Thus University Hall, which was on the site of the present Illini Union, was on the extreme southern part of the old campus. Late in 1891 concrete walks began to replace the board walks and gravel paths, and electri- fication was begun the next year. In 1892 the cornerstone was laid for the Natural History Building, and Engineering Hall was completed in 1894. Although Engineering Hall was only the fifth major structure built, by 1904 there were fifteen major structures, most of which were built south of Green Street. A motley array of buildings composed the campus in the early twentieth century. The va- riety ranged from the Romanesque style of the Library to the undefinable construction of En- gineering Hall to the Colonial beauty of the Woman's Building (now the English Building). But some of these buildings became part of a quadrangular plan when the Woman's Building was placed across from the agriculture building. After his inauguration President Draper (1894 to 1904) appointed a superintendent of grounds. Soon fences were taken down and the twin cities were encouraged to pave the streets in the cam- pus area. President Draper's efforts seem to have con- verted the campus into a country club, for in 1898 a faculty golf club was organized with the course being the campus itself. The course be- gan on the quadrangle, doglegged past the Ob- servatory, offered some challenging rough in the cornfields and cemetery, and returned back to the ninth hole— the site of Noyes Laboratory. tie clock presented by the class of 1878 was moved '.in University Hull to the cupola of the Illini Union. 21