Origins
The City
Collegeville (1887, 1895)
College Delta (1898, 1899)
Oakwood (1899)
Cedar Banks (1900)
College Grove (1903)
Fairview (1904, 1905)
College Heights (1904)
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
Sites on the National and State Historic Registers
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 old cattle barn [Beal, p.75] | |
| 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 bath house | Paint shop by 1913 [Beal, p.272] |
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| 1890 | Union Literary Society house |
English Building, 1927. |
| Botany Lab burns | ||
| 1891 | ||
| 1892 | 2nd Botany Lab | Existing (Old Botany) |
| Bachelor's hall and third greenhouses built | Greenhouse demolished, c.1955 | |
| 1893 | Dam rebuilt | |
| Stone walks constructed | ||
| 1894 | 1st Hospital | Demolished?,1926 |
| 1st Power plant | ||
| Dairy barn (date approx.) | ||
| 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 | |
| 1897 | Cold storage fruit house built | |
| Waiting room for streetcar | ||
| 1898 | Taft's ponds in tamarack swamp | |
| Gunson(?) plants sandhill pine exper. | ||
| MAC lighted by electricity | ||
| 1899 | Coal shed | |
| Rail road built from Trowbridge to the campus | ||
| 1900 | Morrill Hall ("Women's Building") | Existing |
| Gift, Class of 1900 | Existing | |
| Farm foreman's house moved | Demolished?, c.1927 | |
| Athletic field purchased for $1,137 | Existing (Old College Field) | |
| Largest barn erected | ||
| Note: Italicized entries are from Beal's "College as a River" timeline, 1913 | ||
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