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

Horticultural Laboratory Building — Eustace-Cole Hall (1888) SR/NR

Horticultural Laboratory, circa 1913. Note the parti-color shingles, the greenhouse at rear.
Photo Credit: Beal, p.88.

Liberty Hyde Bailey is often credited with designing this building, the first separate horticulture laboratory in the United States. Even the historic marker mounted by the front entrance makes this claim. However, Stanford & Dewhurst suggest that the architect was William D. Appleyard, a name they likely took from the Physical Plant Building Data Book. A reasonable assumption might be that Professor Bailey provided the general design concepts for the laboratory, and then a professional architect incorporated those elements into a solidly-engineered building. Appleyard was also the architect of the Library-Museum and Abbot Hall.[Stanford, p.60. Physical Plant, p.14]

After the new Horticulture building, now known as "Old Horticulture," was constructed in 1924, this became the home of the Basic College, and later the Honors College. In 1961 it was renamed in memory of Harry J. Eustace (M.A.C. '01), Chair of the Horticulture Department (1908-1919). A $3 million donation by former honors student Jeffrey Cole (M.S.U. '70) and his wife, Kathryn (M.S.U. MBA '90), for renovations to the structure led to its being renamed as Eustace-Cole Hall in 1999.

The Old Old Horticulture building is on both state and national historic registers.

An ivy-covered hall: intricate patterns on the rear (east) wall of Eustace Hall, Autumn, 1992.
The ivy was removed during the 1998-99 restoration, for the sake of the building's health.
Photo credit: Kevin S. Forsyth.

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