Introduction

Origins

The City

Collegeville (1887, 1895)
College Delta (1897, 1899)
Oakwood (1899)
Cedar Bank (1900)
College Grove (1903)
Fairview (1903, 1905)
College Heights (1904)

Charter of 1907

Avondale (1913)
Bungalow Knolls (1915)
Chesterfield Hills (1916)
Ardson Heights (1919)
Ridgely Park (1920)
Oak Ridge (1924)
Strathmore (1925)
Glen Cairn (1926)

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

Fountain, Gift of the Class of 1883


Class of ’83 Fountain, likely when new. In the background, Prof. W. S. Holdsworth sits facing the 1882 addition to the Chemical Laboratory, which he designed. Photo Credit: M.S.U. Archives.

The Class of 1883 raised $250 to purchase this fountain, which it presented to the College in a ceremony on August 13, 1883. Eight feet, four inches in height, with a pool measuring twenty feet in diameter, it was located just east of the Botany greenhouses, south of the Chemical Laboratory.[Beal, p. 244]

When the Main Library construction began in 1955, the central statuary was moved to the Demonstration Gardens southeast of the Horticulture Building (“Old Hort”). The basin was “made of a soft stone and was so badly eroded after more than seventy-two years” that it could not be salvaged. A fountain is still in operation in the pool directly behind the Student Services building, but the original statue has long been removed. The gift’s current status is unknown to this author.[Lautner, pp. 55–56]


Fountain in former Hort. gardens, Natural Science in background, with lilac in bloom.
Spring 1994. Photo Credit: Kevin S. Forsyth.

 

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