Summary
Flint Laboratory is an academic building and a former dairy laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It was the first building of the Ellis Drive "agricultural group", including Stockbridge Hall and an unbuilt hall for agricultural mechanics.[1] At the time of its completion, the laboratory was considered to be "one of the best equipped dairy buildings in the United States"[2] and was described as "a model for the whole country" in one edition of the Works Progress Administration guidebook to Massachusetts.[3] The building was named after Charles L. Flint, the university's fourth president, the first secretary of the state board of agriculture, a lecturer on dairy farming, and a prolific agricultural writer who wrote a well-received textbook on "Milch Cows" in the late 19th century.
| Flint Laboratory | |
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 Flint Laboratory in 2011 | |
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| Alternative names | Flint Hall Dairy Building Dairy Laboratory |
| General information | |
| Type | Academic offices, classrooms, former research laboratories, restaurant |
| Architectural style | Georgian Revival |
| Coordinates | 42°23′30″N 72°31′47″W / 42.3916°N 72.5296°W |
| Current tenants | Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management |
| Construction started | 1911 |
| Completed | 1912 |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 4 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | James H. Ritchie |
| Main contractor | Lines Company |
Today the building has been almost entirely converted to office space for the university's Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management Archived 2011-10-03 at the Wayback Machine, however the former "dairy bar" has been repurposed as a restaurant known as Fletcher's Café, which is run by students of the hospitality program.
References edit
- ^ MAC Annual Report, March 1912, pp. 25-26.
- ^ Sargent, Porter E., ed. (1917). A Handbook of New England (2nd ed.). Boston: George H. Ellis Company. p. 342. Retrieved 3 August 2011.
- ^ Massachusetts; a guide to its places and people. Boston: Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Massachusetts. Riverside Press, Houghton Mifflin Company. 1937. p. 127. Retrieved 3 August 2011.