Location:
T171 .G42 G49x 1888-1899

Title:
Forge Shop

Date:
1893

Content:
Engraving of Forge Shop on p. [33] of the Annual Catalogue of the Georgia School of Technology, Announcement for 1892-93.

History:
On April 21, 1892, the Shop Building, one of the two original buildings erected in 1888, was destroyed by fire. The 1892-93 Announcement noted: These [workshops] have been rebuilt in better form and re-equipped with superior tools and machinery." ebuilt according to the old plan even to the reuse of the old brick walls, by contractor F.P. Heifner for $11,886. The 1892-93 Announcment notes that " the second or Junior year is spent in the iron room. During this year the time devoted to practice is one day of nine hours per week during term time, and an additional two hundred hours which must be made up before the beginning of the next year." The forge room in the new building was a small, separate building, detached from the new Shop Building. The Foundry shed was also detached, to prevent a recurrence of the fire that destroyed the 1888 building.