The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-04-10
THE CLEMSON COLLEGE.
Important Meeting and Action of the E1-
ecutive Committee.
Grecnpillc Ne,rs. April 8.

An important meeting Of the e1ecu.
tive committee of the board of Trustees
of the Clemson Agricultural College vas
held at Pendleton, Tuesday. All the
members of the committee were present,
as follows: Col. r. ". Simpson, Col.
JAS L. Orr, Col. D. K. Norris, Col. R.
E. Bowen and Allan Johnstone.
Colonel Orr returned to the city yes
terday, and in respose to inquiries gave a
reporter for the Daily Ne,os full state.
ruent ofthe business transacted by the
committee.
The executive committee was called
together to consider and decide upon
plans for the buildings for the new insti
tuition to be erected at Fort Hill by the
States muni6cence. The preparation Of
these plans had been entrusted to Bruce
& Morgan, we'll known firm of Atlanta
architects. Mr.. Bruce, the senior men,
Der of the firm, was present at the meet.
ing at Pendleton, and submitted to the
committee series of plans for their in.
spection. No one set of these designs
was chosen, but the committee made up
from all the plans submitted one set
which they conceive to embody the best
points of all, and which they will recon-.
mend TO the Trustees for adoption. The
plans selected comprehend, it is believ.
ed, all the buildings that will be needed
to start the institution and furnish it
| ample accommodations for years to come.
The committees plans contemplate
the erection of six college buildings and
ten professors houses. Of the college
buildings proper, attention will be chiefly
devoted to the main building. This will
be a., imposing structure of modern and
artistic design, embodying all the latest
achievements In the construction of
school buildings. 1t will be built of
brick, three stories high, 80 feet wide by
112 feet in length. The building will
contain twelve lecture rooms, two society
rooms and q muslum, together with
Offices for the president and the treaau.
rer. Attached to the main building will
be chapel measuring fifty by seventy.
FIVE feet.
Next in Importance will be the library
and mechanical department. building.
The laboratory will be a two story struc.
ture, fifty feet wide and eighty feet long.
1t will be modelled after the most ap.
proved German laboratories and will be
complete in every appointment. The
building for the accommodation of the
department of mechanical work will be
two stories high, and 40 by LOO feet in
dimensions. Both these structures, as
we'll as all the other college buildings,
will be built of brick.
The buildings for dormitory purposes
will be two in number and will furnish
accommodations for $50 students. The
buildings will be two stories high, and
SS feet wide by 120 feet long. They will
be of plain design but substantial con.
struction, the idea being not to lavish
expense on dormitory buildings as has
been done in similar institutions, but to
concentrate the chief cost on the main
college building. A building for the
mess hall and kitchen will be put up in
connection with the dormitories.
Ten professors houses will be built, q
residence for the president and another
for the director of the experimental farm
being included in that number. The
residences will be of four and ten rooms
each, of modern styles of architecture.
The total cost of all these buildings, as
estimated by the committee, will be
100000.
1t has been found that very large
part ofthe material needed in the con.
struction of the buildings can be obtain
ed on the spot, on the Clemson property,
thereby materially cheapening the cost
of building. The clay on the place has
been tested by an expert and found to be
excellent brick clay. Since there is an
abundance of this clay on the farm, all
the brick for the buildings will be made
there. Examination has also developed
on the place an abundant supply of good
building granite, which will be used in
the foundations. 1t is probable that the
greater part of the lumber used in the
buildings will be obtained from the same
source, there being an abundance of tim
Der on the property.
The architects will proceed at once to
prepare the details and elevations of the
plans decided on by the executive com.
mittee. As perfected they will be sub.
mitted to meeting of the full board OF
the college trustees 10 be called as soon
as the decision In the Clemson will case,
now pending before the United States
Supreme Court, is announced. The de.
cision will probably be received within
three or four weeks, at the latest, and as
soon thereafter as convenient the trus.
tees will meet, adopt The plans and order
the beginning Of the actual work on the
buildings. The committee on curricu.
lum, consisting of Col. B. W. Edwards,
B. r. Tillman, J. E. Tindal, NJ. L. Don.
aldson and J. E, Wannamaker, is ex-
peted to report at the same time that
the executive committee reports on the
building plans.
After their session at Pendleton, Tues
day, the committee visited Fort Hill and
located the sites for the college buildings
The main building, about which the
others will be harmoniously grouped
will occupy the smooth plateau directly
in front of the stately old mansion Of
John G. Calhoun, and about 300 yards
distant from it. The spot is the hight