JUNE 12, 1958
SUMMER NEBRASKAN
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Speculation Rampant On Possible Elgin Uses
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May Hold Clues
By Dick Ramage
It's ours for $725,000 and a
bargain at that but what
happens next?
That's the problem now
with the utilization of the El
gin plant. Speculation of the
use that will be made of the
structure, six times larger
man any of the present Uni
versity classroom buildings,
began before the final agree
ment was made with Elgin of
ficials.
The plant has 310,000 square
ieet of usable space
Purchase of the building will
be financed by funds from the
10-year state institutional
building levy, University offi
cials said, and will probably
eliminate the need for the
near-future construction of a
science building and general
classroom building.
The University space utiliza
tion committee is now study
ing the problem of how to use
the structure, Business Man
ager Carl Donaldson said.
First results of the study are
not expected to be released
until early fall.
Possibilities
University observers point
out several possible uses of
the newly-acquired structure,
however. The clue to final use
of the building may lie in the
age of several presently used
buildings on the city campus.
All the present partitions in
the Elgin building are remov
able, allowing for ease in reno
vation and for flexibility in fu
ture planning, Donaldson said.
Grant Memorial Hall, now
used by the Department of
Women's Physical Education
was built in 1887. Student? en
rolled in the department's
courses walk from the Hall,
located at 12th and S Streets,
to the girl's physical educa
tion field, off 14th and W. The
field is just west of the Elgin
building, 17th and Northside.
Adjacent to Grant Memorial
ing the Department of Geog
raphy and the University Po
lice. It was built in 1906.
71 Year-Old Tot
Nebraska Hall, also con
structed in 1887, holds the Di
vision of Conservation and
Survey, in addition to other
federal offices working with
the University.
The Department of Archi
tecture, located in Architec
tural Hall, is vintage 1894, and
the adjacent "temporary"
building is some 12 years old.
Also located in the Hail is the
Audio-visual Aids Department
and the Extension Service.
Donaldson has commented i
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that the Extension Service
does not have direct contact
with University students and
could be placed further off
campus without impairing its
services.
The School of Music build
ing was acquired in 1896, but
a recent addition added more
practice rooms to the facili
ties.
Entire College
Some observers, keeping in
mind the fact that the Elgin
building can support 300
pounds per square foot on the
tost tree floors and 75 pounds
on tne top two, are casting an
eye of the entire college of
Engineering and Architecture
Chancellor Clifford Mardin
has said the floors of the
building are more than ade
quate to carry any type of
laboratory equipment, and
engineers have that.
Many of the engineering
structures are aging. Ricards
Laboratory, housing the De
partment of Mechanical Engi
neering, was built in 1908 and
the old part of the Bancroft
building was constructed in
1915.
Stout Hall, home of Civil
Engineering, was built in 1897,
but has a 1953 addition.
The department does have
several new buildings in addi
tion to the additions. Avery
Lab, used by Chemistry and
Cemistry Engineering was
built in 1918, but as a 1947 ad
dition.
Another crowded building is
Bessey Hall, built in 1916. The
structure houses botony, bi
ology, zoology and bacteriology-Chancellor
Hardin may
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have given a hint of partial
future use of the Elgin build
ing when he told a meeting
of the central Labor Union
that he believed physics and
biology could specifically
benefit from the available ad
ditional space.
"When you decide what to
put in the Elgin building, you
still have the problem of what
department or school to put
into the quarters vacated by
the moved departments," Don
aldson said.
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