The Communication Building History

In the 1902 annual report by President F. Yale Adams there was a strong recommendation of the need for a fireproof science building. In summer 1908 Andrew E. Douglass, professor of Physics and Astronomy, visited a number of eastern universities, including Harvard, Columbia, John Hopkins, and MIT, and returned with detailed notes and sketches of their various science facilities. The Science Building opened in Fall 1909. It was the largest building on campus, three stories high, and contained 45 rooms. Physics labs were on the first floor, chemistry on the second, and biology on the third. The first real “operating” telescope (8 inch) was installed on the top floor of the new...