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the university at the expiration of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition 

 which has leased them for the World's Fair period. 



University Hall, facing the main approach to the group of new 

 buildings, the gift of Mr. Eobert S. Brookings, was erected at a cost 

 of $230,000. The building is 325 feet long, with wings on each end 

 119 feet long, and the towers 85 feet high. This building will contain 

 the administrative offices of the university, and the offices and lecture 

 rooms of twelve professors, besides study rooms, reception and faculty 

 rooms. 



Cupples Hall, No. 1, erected by Mr. Samuel Cupples, at an ex- 

 penditure of about $110,000, is to be used by the department of civil 

 engineering and architecture. The building is 232 feet long and the 

 width 52 feet. It is two stories high on the quadrangle and three on 

 the north side. The first floor will be used by the department of 

 architecture and the second floor will be devoted to civil engineering. 



Busch Hall, the laboratory of chemistry, was presented by Mr. 

 Adolphus Busch and cost $110,000. The building is 291 feet long 

 and about 60 feet wide, two stories high on the north side and three 

 on the south side, and contains laboratories for all branches of chem- 

 ical instruction and research work. 



The library finishes out the first quadrangle and occupies a central 

 position in regard to the group of buildings. It was erected at a cost 

 of $250,000. The eastern front is 257 feet long and the depth is 46 

 feet, with a reading room one story high in the rear of the center of 

 the building, about 100 feet long and 41 feet wide. The building will 

 contain stacks with room for over 400,000 volumes. 



Cupples, No. 2, and the Cupples Engineering Laboratory, directly 

 behind it, were also presented by Mr. Samuel Cupples, and cost to- 

 gether about $165,000. The hall is 207 feet long, the first floor of 

 which is to be devoted to mechanical engineering, and the second floor 

 to electrical engineering. The laboratory adjoining is only one story, 

 but is built in a style uniform with the other buildings, and of the 

 same grade of granite and will contain the engines, pumps, dynamos 

 and motors, etc., as are necessary for instruction in those departments. 

 The university power house close by is provided with a splendid equip- 

 ment of boilers, engines and dynamos, to furnish light, power and 

 heat for the entire plant. 



Eads Hall, the laboratory of physics, the gift of Mrs. Eliza How 

 in memory of her father, Captain Jas. B. Eads, the well-known engi- 

 neer, adjoins the library on the west. 



Farther to the west are two large dormitories both of the same 

 style and construction of the other buildings. Liggett Hall, erected by 

 Mrs. Elizabeth J. Liggett in memory of her husband, the late Mr. 

 John E. Liggett, at a cost of $100,000, will accommodate 75 students. 



