Economics Building Fire [Upper window and roof]

Built in 1856. First chemical laboratory at a state university. Building served medical students and others as both laboratory and classroom. Situated just west and south of the original medical building. Additions made to the one-story building in 1861, 1866, 1868, 1874. In 1880 a two-story addition was added with subsequent additions in 1889 and 1901. Became Economics Building in 1908. Pharmacology occupied north wing 1908-1981. Destroyed by fire Christmas Eve 1981.

Economics Building Fire [Interior through window]

Built in 1856. First chemical laboratory at a state university. Building served medical students and others as both laboratory and classroom. Situated just west and south of the original medical building. Additions made to the one-story building in 1861, 1866, 1868, 1874. In 1880 a two-story addition was added with subsequent additions in 1889 and 1901. Became Economics Building in 1908. Pharmacology occupied north wing 1908-1981. Destroyed by fire Christmas Eve 1981.

West Physics Building. Fire, summer 1966

Pond & Pond, architects. Built 1887-1888. Looking east. Undergraduate Library in background.

West Physics Building. Fire, summer 1966

Pond & Pond, architects. Built 1887-1888. Looking southeast. Undergraduate Library in background.

West Physics Building. Fire, summer 1966

Pond & Pond, architects. Built 1887-1888. North side.

Haven Hall [fire aftermath]

Jordan & Anderson, architect (1863); Spier & Rohns (1898). The old Law Building was renamed Haven Hall in 1933. It became one of the main buildings for LS&A used by Departments of History, Sociology and Journalism. The old Law Library became a study hall and Bureau of Government Library. Extension Division also had offices in Haven Hall.

Haven Hall [fire aftermath]

Jordan & Anderson, architect (1863); Spier & Rohns (1898). The old Law Building was renamed Haven Hall in 1933. It became one of the main buildings for LS&A used by Departments of History, Sociology and Journalism. The old Law Library became a study hall and Bureau of Government Library. Extension Division also had offices in Haven Hall.

Old Medical Building after the fire

First medical building, built 1850, addition in 1864, used until West Medical was completed in 1903. Fire in 1911 destroyed west half, remainder, including portico, razed in 1914. On verso: #3 Exterior from the South-west. Credit line on verso: University of Michigan Office of Supt. of Bldgs & Grounds, Drawing no. 478-B-7

Menominee, Mich. fire

building unknown

Around the fire Glen Haven, Mich.

[George Damon Fuller and students of a University of Chicago Department of Botany class.]