Introduction

Origins

The City

Collegeville (1887, 1895)
College Delta (1898, 1899)
Oakwood (1899)
Cedar Banks (1900)
College Grove (1903)
Fairview (1904, 1905)
College Heights (1904)

Charter of 1907

Avondale (1913)
Bungalow Knolls (1916)
Chesterfield Hills (1916)
Ardson (1919)
Ridgeley Park (1921)
Strathmore (1925)
Glen Cairn (1926)
Bailey (1927)
Touraine (1927)

The Campus

Chronology

Interactive Map

Sites on the National and State Historic Registers

Complete list of
Significant Structures

Sources

Liberty Hyde Bailey School, 300 Bailey St. (1922)

Professor Bailey, circa 1886. Photo credit: M.S.U.

Liberty Hyde Bailey, Jr. (1858-1954, M.A.C. BS '82, MS '86) was Professor of Horticulture 1885-1888, after which he went to Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) to become Chair of Horticulture and later Dean of the College of Horticulture (1903-1913). He designed the nation's first Horticulture Laboratory at M.A.C. (now Eustace-Cole Hall), and remains a world-famous horticulturalist to this day. His portrait hangs in the lobby of the Plant and Soil Sciences Building, and a larger-than-life statue graces the horticulture gardens behind PSS.

Bailey's childhood home in South Haven, Michigan, is now a National and State Historic Site.

This site was purchased by the school board in February, 1922, and construction soon began on the district's second schoolhouse (after Central School). The school was dedicated in June, 1923, with Dr. Bailey in attendance.

L.H. Bailey School, November, 2003. Photo Credit: Kevin S. Forsyth

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