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ORIGINAL PURCHASE: THE COLLEGE HALL CORE
On 18 December 1869, by Ordinance of City Councils, the City was authorized to sell 9.962 acres to the Trustees at $8,000 per acre. On 4 January 1870 the Trustees authorized the purchase of the property. [Click to view the 1870 deed and the 1873 mortgage for this property]
Seven buildings now occupy this land: College Hall, Logan Hall, Williams Hall, Houston Hall, Irvine Auditorium, the Fisher Fine Arts Library, and Meyerson Hall. Two of these – Irvine Auditorium and Williams Hall – replace earlier structures. Irvine Auditorium stands on the site of both the Mechanical Laboratory, built in 1892 and destroyed by fire in 1906 and the Central Light and Heat Plant, built in 1892 and demolished in 1925 to make way for Irvine. Williams Hall stands on the site of the original Medical and Dental Laboratory building, later renamed Hare Hall, which was demolished in 1969. The Trustees also built one other building on the original ten acres which no longer exists: a short-lived Dining Hall, built in 1888 and demolished shortly after the 1896 opening of Houston Hall. |