Location:
T171 .G42 G49x 1888-1899

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

Date:
1896

Content:
Drawing of the floor plans for the first, second and third story of the Academic Building on p. [39] of the Annual Catalogue of the Georgia School of Technology, Announcement for 1895-96.

History:
The floor plans for the three stories of the Academic Building show, as do the 1890-91 floor plans, 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 Announcment describes the building thus: "The Academic building is a splendid edifice of brick, trimmed with granite and terra cotta, slate roof. It has one hundred and thirty feet front, is one hundred and twenty deep, and is four stories high above the basement story. It contains ample accommodations in halls, offices, apparatus rooms, recitation and lecture rooms, free-hand and mechanical drawing rooms, library and chapel."