Chronology of the Michigan Agricultural College
1855–1870 1871–1885 1886–1900 1901–1915 1916–1925
| Year | Event or Building | History |
| 1886 | Artesian well drilled | |
| 1887 | Silo, 18x30’, attached to north end of 1862 cattle barn [Beal, p. 75] |
Silo removed when barn moved, summer 1906 |
| 1888 | Horticulture Lab | Existing (Eustace–Cole Hall) |
| Abbot Hall | Demolished, 1968 | |
| Howard Terrace | Demolished, 1922 | |
| Delta dedicated to Botany Dept. | Platted for housing, 1897 | |
| 3rd Farm Lane bridge | Replaced, c.1939 [Lautner, p. 142] |
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| 1889 | Agriculture Lab, later Entomology | Existing (Cook Hall) |
| 1st Bathhouse | Demolished, c.1915 | |
| 1890 | Union Literary Society house | English Dept., 1927; Foreign Language, 1937 Demolished, 1953 |
| Botany Lab burns | ||
| 1891 | ||
| 1892 | 2nd Botany Lab | Existing (Old Botany) |
| Station Terrace | Demolished, 1924 | |
| Third greenhouses built | Demolished, c.1955 | |
| 1893 | Dam rebuilt | |
| Stone walks constructed | ||
| 1894 | 1st Hospital | Moved 1924 to 901 Abbot Rd.; later demolished |
| 1st Power plant | ||
| Streetcar line reaches West entrance | ||
| 1895 | Electric lights on campus Belle Sarcastic gave milk for 738 lbs of butter Irrigation for vegetable garden Exp. Station barn built for grain |
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| 1896 | White Elephant & Ping’s store | Demolished, 1916 |
| Cooperative Book Buying Association founded | Existing (M.S.U. Bookstore) | |
| 1897 | Sarcastic Lad is calved, 18 Oct. | |
| Dairy barn | ||
| Cold storage fruit house built | ||
| Waiting room for streetcar | ||
| 1898 | Taft’s ponds in tamarack swamp | |
| Gunson(?) plants sandhill pine experiment | ||
| MAC lighted by electricity | ||
| 1899 | Coal shed | |
| Rail road built from Trowbridge to the campus | ||
| 1900 | Morrill Hall (“Women’s Building”) | Demolished, 2013 |
| Gift, Class of 1900 | Existing | |
| Farm foreman’s house moved | Demolished, 1930 | |
| Athletic field purchased for $1,137 | Existing (Old College Field) | |
| Largest dairy barn | ||
| Pere Marquette spur (bridge over Red Cedar) [39th AR, p. 24] | ||
| Note: Italicized entries are from Beal’s “College as a River” timeline, 1913 | ||
