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

1855-1870
1871-1885
1886-1900
1901-1915
1916-1927

 

Interactive Map

Sites on the National and State Historic Registers

Complete list of
Significant Structures

Sources

Chronology of the Michigan Agricultural College

1855-1870 1871-1885 1886-1900 1901-1915 1916-1927

Year Event or Building History
1916 Gymnasium Existing (Circle IM)
     
1917 R.E. Olds Hall

Existing

     
1918 College Hall collapses  
     
1919

Williams Hall burns, 1 January

 
     
     
     
1923 Stadium Existing (Spartan Stadium)
     
1924 Union Memorial Building Existing
  Horticulture Building

Existing (Old Hort.)

  Home Economics building
Existing (Human Ecology)
  Horticultural greenhouse If existing, Demolished ca. 1998.
  Library Existing (M.S.U. Museum)
     
     
1927 2nd Weather Bureau station Existing (Wills House)
  Kedzie Chemical Laboratory Existing (North Kedzie Hall)
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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East Lansing: Collegeville Revisited
by Whitney Miller

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