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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 | |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
