Location:
T171 .G42 G49x 1888-1899

Title:
Floor Plans, Academic Building, Georgia School of Technology, Atlanta

Date:
1892

Content:
Drawing of the floor plans for the Academic Building, showing first floor, second floor and third floor on page [39] of the Annual Catalogue of the Georgia School of Technology, Announcement for 1891-'92..

History:
The drawing of the floor plans for the first, second and third stories of the Academic Building in the 1891-92 Announcement, when compared to the floor plans in the 1888-'90 Announcment, show the second and third floor plans reversed. It is not currently known which is correct, or if they indeed switched. The floor plans for the three stories of the Academic Building show the Public Hall and Physics instruction on the first floor, English, Languages and Chemistry (including two chemical laboratories) on the second floor and Mathematics, Drawing and the Library on the third floor.The Academic Building, completed in 1888, was designed by the prestigious Atlanta architectural firm, Bruce and Morgan and constructed by contractor Angus McGilvray, for a total cost of $43,250 in state funds. The Academic Building was one of two buildings comprising the Georgia Tech campus in October, 1888 when the Georgia School of Technology first opened its doors. The Academic Building was considered "the major academic building of early Georgia Tech" and was used for both teaching and administration until 1959, when it became exclusively an administration building. The building is described in the pamphlet as: "a splendid edifice of brick, trimmed with granite and terra cotta, slate roof. It has one hundred and thirty foot front, is one hundred and twenty deep and is four stories high above basement story. It contains ample accomodations in halls, offices, apparatus rooms, recitation and lecture rooms, free hand and mechanical drawing rooms, library and chapel."