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(madison icon)1902



The Preparatory School in 1850, with its score of awkward country lads under the sole instruction of Professor Sterling, has grown to a great University, with an annual attendance of 3,000 students, with 100 professors and as many more assistants and instructors, and with an annual income of more than $500,000. With two graduates in 1854, with sixty-one in 1867, it enters the year 1903 with more than 1800 graduates.

For more than fifty years its visible home has been slowly rising on College Hill.
Building Year Cost
The old North Dormitory 1851 $20,000
UW 1879
The South Dormitory 1855 $21,000
The Main Hall 1858 $63,000
The Ladies' Hall, now Chadbourne Hall 1871,
remodeled
in 1896
$130,000

Washburn Observatory Presented to
the University
in 1878 by
Cadwallader
C. Washburn
$42,000
The Students' Observatory 1880 $800
old observatory
Library Hall 1879 $40,000
the President's House 1880,
remodeled
in 1892
$12,000
Science Hall 1875,
burned
in 1887
$80,000
New Science Hall, Chemical Laboratory, Machine Shops, and Central Heating Plant   $420,000
Dairy Building 1892 $40,000
the Law Building 1893 $85,000
Horticultural Building 1894 $43,167
Armory and Gymnasium 1894 $130,000
Grand Stand on Randall Field   $4,500
Camp Randall from top of Bascom 1902
Pump House 1896 $2,000
Dairy Barn 1897 $20,000
Dairy Barn 1899
Rowing Tank 1897 $1,000
House, Dean of Agriculture 1897 $10,000
University Hall, new south wing 1900 $56,000
Horse Barn 1900 $12,000
Engineering Building 1901 $100,000
Agricultural College Central Heating Plant 1901 $27,000
Agricultural College Building 1902 $150,000
State Historical Society Building   $750,000