Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-04-10
The Clemson College.
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Trustees of the Clemson Agricultu-
raj College was ncld at Pendlcton,
Tuesday. All the members of the
committee were present, as follows
Col, r. w. Simpson, Col. Jas. i Orr,
Col. D. Il. Norris, Col. r. 4. Bowen
and Allen Johnstonc.
Colonel Orr returned to the city
yesterday, and in response to in
quiries gave a reporter for the Daily
Ne,os a full statement of the busi-
ness transacted BY the committee.
The executive committee was
called together to consider and de-
eide upon plans for the buildings for
the new institution to be erected at
Fort Hill by the States munifcence.
The preparation of these plans had
been entrusted to Bruce & Morgan,
a wcll-known firm of Atlanta archi-
tects. Mr.. Bruce, the senior mem
Der of the firm, WAS present at the
meeting at Pendleton, and submitted
to the committee series of plans
for their inspection. 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
believed, all the buildings that will
be needed to start the institution and
furnish it ample accommodation 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 an imposing
structure of modern and artistic
design, cmbodying all the latest
achievements in the construction of
school buildings. 1t will be built of
brick, three stories high, 90 feet
wide by 112 feet in length. The
building will contain twelve lecture
rooms and museum, together with
Offices for the President and Treasu-
rcr. Attached to the main building
will be chapel measuring fifty by
scventy-tivc feet.
Next in Importance will be the
library and mechanical department
building. The laboratory will be a
two story structure, fifty feet wide
and eighty feet long. 1t will be
modelled after the most approved
German laboratories and will be com
plcte in every appointment. The
building for the accommodation Of
the department of mechanical work
will be two stories high, and 40 by
100 feet in dimensions. Both these
structures, as well rs all the other
college buildings, will be built of
brick. ...-..
The buildings for the dormitory
purposes will be two in number and
will furnish accommodations for 150
students. The buildings will be two
stories high, and 3S feet wide by 100
feet long. They will be of plain
design but substantial construction,
the idea being not to lavish expense
on dormitory buildings rs 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 mp in connection with the DOR
mitorics.
Ten professors houses will be
built, residence for the President
and another for the director of the
experimental farm being included in
that humber. The residences will
be of four and ten rooms each, of
modern styles and architecture.
The total cost Of all these build
lngs, as estimated by the committee,
will be 100000.
1t has been found that a very
large part of the material needed in
the construction of the buildings can
DC obtained on tho spot, on the
Clemson property, thereby mate
rally cheapening the cost of build
ing. 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
fhn l.