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$527,000 In Ten Years

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
December
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
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$527,000 IN TEN YEARS

Amount of the Permanent Improvements.

AT THE U. OF M.

Counting the New Homeopathic Hospital They Will Amount to $600,000.

During the last 10 years permanent improvements amounting to 527,000 have been made at the University. The several improvements and the cost of each are as follows : Two new hospitals, $130,000; enlargement of the dental building, $7,000; enlargement of the law building, $25,000; new recitation building,$30,000 ; heating plant, $56,000; new roof on museum, $5,000; gymnasiums, $10,000; dormitory at the hospitals, $20,000; two sun rooms at the hospitals, $4,000; new law building, $65,000; additions to the library building, $20,000; new roof on the main building, $15,000 ; electric lighting plant on the campus, $5,000; electric lighting plant, at the hospitals, $5,000.

The gymnasiums were built without cost to the state. The city of Ann Arbor contributed $5,000 towards the hospitals and $1,000 for the site of the Homeopathic hospital which is now building, and which has not been included in the above figures. When completed this hospital (including site) will have cost between $80,000 and $90,000. With this addition, the grand total of permanent improvements since 1889 will amount to over $600,000.