Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-25
LAYING A CORNERSTONE.
The Freeman College of Applied
ScienceS.

inc freeman COllege OIL Applied
Sciences.
The excursion trains to Inglewood yes
terday carried large number of people
from this city, Pasadena and other
points. The attraction at fair Inglewood
yesterday was the laying of the corner
stone of the Freeman College of Applied
Sciences. 1t is to be branch of the
great University of Southern California,
which institution is under the patronage
of the M. E. Church. 1t has ramifica-
tions in all parts of this section. The
central ganglion is in Los Angeles,
in the great College of Letters.
In this city is soon to be
erected a College of Arts. There is the
College OF Agriculture at Ontario, and
the Theological College at San Fernando.
Then there are Seminaries of high
character connected with the work in San
Diego, Tulare. Ventura and other coun-
ties. The property of the concern is
worth perhaps $3,OOO,OOO. The latest
addition to this great educational ma
chine is the Freeman College of Applied
yesterday at lovely Inglewood. Here is
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college:
"On May 4, 1858, the first sod was
turned for the building Of the Freeman
College of Applied Sciences. On May
oath force of men was set to work dig
ging the excavations for the foundations.
The architects are Messrs. Curlett, Eisen
& Cuthbertson, of Los Angeles. The
building as planned is of the Roman
type, massive, ornate and noble in all
its proportions. Two great gable wings
f1anking a stately square central tower
facing south are the dominating features
of the magnificent structure which is to
cost not less than $14S, 1000, and which is
to be furnished at cost of $25, 900. The
building is to be OF brick and stone. with
two stories and basement.
The dimensions OF the central tower
are 40x52 feet, with projection on it's
third floor of % feet. Provision is made
in the basement for foundry, black
smith and carpenter shops for all work
in wood and iron; on the first floor for
offices for the Dean and the Faculty, the
library, the chapel which extends to the
second floor, large rooms for the physi-
cal, chemical and electrical laboratories,
mathematics, modern languages, etc.
and ON the second floor provision is made
for the museum and model rooms and
also rooms for instruction in qualitative
chemistry, miscroscopy, biology, photo
graphy, drawing and experiments in
light and electricity.
The college takes it name from Daniel
Freeman, the last owner of the Centinela
ranch, and to whose generous endow.
ment of $1,000 the college owes its ex.
istence. The Centinela- Inglewood Land
Company has contributed an additional
$50, 900 in cash and has also decided, be-
sides tiact of ten acres for a campus,
500 lots in the choicest part of the town
site OF Inglewood, the proceeds from the
sale OF which are to be applied to the en-.
dowmeEt fund. The Board of Endow.
ment trustees of the Freeman College
consists OF Messrs. Charles Silent, E. F.
Spence. R. W. Widney, H. Sinsabaugh
M: M. Bovard and Daniel Freeman.
The cullege site is one OF the most at.
tractive in California, being on slightly
elevated ground overlooking the pictures.
que town of Inglewood, on the line ol
two railroads and half way between Los
ANGELES and Redonda Beach"
Yesterday the weather was delightful
and as the crowd gathered about the
foundation of the new college the CITY o
Los Angeles, and nearly the whole o.
the Los Angeles valley for thirty miles
around, lay in full view. It is one of the
finest views in the county. The corner