http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/ 2026-04-10T03:02:18+00:00 http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/ http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2024-07-10T19:42:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=b:baker_hall&rev=1720640526&do=diff Baker Hall Constructed: 1952 Architects: Louis Warren Ross ---------- Design and construction Baker House is an approximately 84,000 square foot student residence hall on the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts. The building is one of nine structures that comprise the text/html 2024-07-10T19:42:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=b:baker_hugh_p&rev=1720640557&do=diff Baker, Hugh P. President, Massachusetts State College: 1933-1947 ---------- [Hugh P. Baker] [Hugh P. Baker, ca.1945] Hugh Baker served as President during most of the existence of Massachusetts State College. The institution changed its name from Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1931, two years before Baker was appointed president. After he left office in 1947, the college became the University of Massachusetts. text/html 2024-07-10T19:43:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=b:baritz_loren&rev=1720640635&do=diff Baritz, Loren Chancellor, UMass Amherst: 1982 ---------- Loren Baritz served as Chancellor for several months in 1982, prior to the arrival of Joseph Duffey. During that time, he established the Office of Human Relations and wrote a new strategic plan which included the improvement of affirmative action policies. text/html 2024-06-09T18:38:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=b:barkin_solomon&rev=1717958298&do=diff Barkin, Solomon Economics; Labor Center, 1968-1978 b. 1907 d. March 29, 2000, Leverett, Mass. ---------- Solomon Barkin was born in New York City in 1907. He received his bachelor's degree from the College of the City of New York (CCNY) in 1928, and went on to receive his master's degree in economics from Columbia University the following year. He was an instructor at CCNY from 1928 to 1931, but made his career in labor and social leadership. As Director of Research for the Textile Worke… text/html 2024-07-10T19:45:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=b:bartlett_hall&rev=1720640735&do=diff Bartlett Hall Constructed: 1959-1960 Architect: Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson, and Abbot of Boston. ---------- Design and Construction The first building on campus to draw on modernist design, Bartlett Hall was built on the site of the former text/html 2025-09-09T14:37:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=b:basketball&rev=1757428675&do=diff Basketball [Basketball team 1973-74, with Al Skinner and Rick Pitino] [Basketball team, 1925] Although invented by James. A. Naismith nearby in Springfield in 1891, basketball took several years to take firm root at UMass Amherst. Following the refitting of the old Drill Hall as a gymnasium in 1899, MAC students had a suitable, though unheated court on which to play during inclement weather text/html 2024-07-09T19:18:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=b:berkshire_house&rev=1720552718&do=diff Berkshire House Constructed: 1948 Architects: Alderman and Alderman ---------- Design and construction [Berkshire House][Berkshire House] Berkshire House is one of five original concrete-block, multi-story residential structures designed to accommodate 150 persons or 30 families each. Berkshire House is one of three of the original buildings remaining of this group known as “county circle” ( text/html 2024-07-09T19:21:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=b:blaisdell_house&rev=1720552860&do=diff Blaisdell House Constructed: 1869 Architects: Unknown ---------- Design and construction [Blaisdell House] [Blaisdell House] [Blaisdell House] Blaisdell House is a 2½ story wood frame Greek Revival house with a side gable roof, a rear ell and a front porch that has an octagonal pavilion at its southeast corner. The porch is supported by four evenly spaced square posts that have fluting. The east and west end porch posts have return pilasters on the wall of the house. The building’s foundat… text/html 2021-09-03T16:47:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=b:boarding_house&rev=1630687673&do=diff Boarding Houses Built in 1867 and 1868. They were located approximately where Flint or Stockbridge Hall now sit. Listed in 1869 through early 1870s reports as South and North boarding houses. South boarding house The boarding house was built in the summer of 1867 and was a wooden building with a mansard roof and a one story ell on the back. It included accommodations for a family to manage the building and had a dining-room 50 x 18 feet. The students were charged for board in the 1860s at $… text/html 2024-07-09T19:22:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=b:botanic_garden&rev=1720552945&do=diff Botanic Garden Constructed: Planned 1870, never completed ---------- <html> <a href=“/static/images/botanicgarden.jpg”><img src=“/static/images/botanicgarden_sm.jpg” alt=“botanic garden plan” /></a> </html> During the earliest, ambitious days of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, the college's planners lavished great care on the design of the hill on the western margin of campus. The text/html 2021-09-03T16:47:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=b:botanic_museum&rev=1630687673&do=diff Botanic Museum Constructed: 1866 Architects: ---------- Design and construction The Botanic Museum was built in 1866 and later served variously as the mathematics, conservation, and physics building in the 20th century. At an initial cost of $5180, it was a two-story frame structure, 43 by 45 feet, and was one of the four buildings erected about the time of the opening of Massachusetts Agricultural College. On the first floor was a laboratory and recitation room. On the floor above was the … text/html 2024-07-10T19:48:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=b:bowditch_lodge&rev=1720640938&do=diff Bowditch Lodge Constructed: 1937 Architects/Builders: 4H volunteers ---------- Design and construction [Bowditch Lodge] [Bowditch Lodge] [Bowditch Lodge] [Bowditch Lodge] [Bowditch Lodge] Bowditch Lodge is a one story ranch-style building with a side gable roof, which was constructed in 1937 as a meeting place for the Massachusetts State College’s very active 4H club community. The building has a projecting front gable ell and a deep covered porch on its main, southeast elevation. The main… text/html 2024-07-10T19:11:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=b:bridgeforth_george_ruffum&rev=1720638691&do=diff Bridgeforth, George Ruffin (1901) [Football team, 1901 (Bridgeforth in center rear)] The first African American student to enroll at the Massachusetts Agricultural College was probably George Ruffin Bridgeforth (sometimes listed as George Ruffum Bridgeforth), who arrived in Amherst in the fall of 1897. Born in Athens (Limestone County), Ala., on Oct. 5, 1873, Bridgeforth was nearly 24 when he entered as a freshman, and in some ways, he set a pattern for the pioneering cohort of African America… text/html 2024-07-10T19:49:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=b:bromery_randolph_w&rev=1720640954&do=diff Bromery, Randolph W. Chancellor, UMass Amherst: 1971-1979 ---------- [Randolph W. Bromery, 1974] [Randolph W. Bromery, 1971] Randolph Bromery guided the campus through most of the difficult 1970s. Born in Cumberland, Md., on Jan. 18, 1926, Bromery served in the Tuskegee Airmen during the Second World War and after his discharge, studied at Howard University, earning his BS in Mathematics in 1956 while working full-time as an aeromagnetic exploration geophysicist with the United States Geolog… text/html 2024-07-09T19:29:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=b:brooks_farm_complex&rev=1720553341&do=diff Brooks Farm Complex Beginnings The Massachusetts Agricultural College stock facilities were originally called the College Barn and located at a farm complex that stood in the south central area of the core campus, in the vicinity of the current location of Curry Hicks Gymnasium and the text/html 2024-07-15T19:16:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=b:brooks_hall&rev=1721070987&do=diff Brooks Hall Constructed: 1949 Architects: Louis Warren Ross ---------- Design and construction [Brooks House] [Brooks House, 2008] [Brooks House] [Brooks House] Brooks House is an approximately 37,000 square foot student residence hall on the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts. The building is one of nine structures that comprise the text/html 2024-07-09T19:33:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=b:brooks_tobacco_barn&rev=1720553607&do=diff Brooks Tobacco Barn Constructed: 1924 Architects: Unknown ---------- Design and construction [Brooks Tobacco Barn] [Brooks Tobacco Barn] [Brooks Tobacco Barn] The Brooks Tobacco Barn is a 2½ story New England barn with a rectangular plan, vertical board siding and asphalt roll roofing on its front gable roof. The barn has a peaked ventilator on the roof ridge at about the midpoint of the building. The structure has two double-leaf swinging doors in its gable front southeast elevation. Larg… text/html 2024-07-09T19:34:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=b:brooks_william_p&rev=1720553693&do=diff Brooks, William P. President, Massachusetts Agricultural College: 1905-1906 ---------- [William P. Brooks, 1875] [William P. Brooks, ca.1885] [William P. Brooks, 1929] William Penn Brooks was born in South Scituate, Massachusetts in November of 1851. He entered the Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1871 and graduated with high honors in 1875. During his undergraduate years he participated in Dr. text/html 2024-07-09T19:35:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=b:building_index&rev=1720553727&do=diff Buildings Index The following is a nearly comprehensive list of buildings on the campus of UMass Amherst since its founding as the Massachusetts Agricultural College, though omitting most barns and out-buildings. In 2009, the Facilities and Campus Planning Department commissioned an text/html 2021-09-29T17:39:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=b:building_survey_2009&rev=1632937160&do=diff Building Survey (2009) During the Fall 2008, the University of Massachusetts Facilities Department contracted with Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc., and Pressley Associates to prepare a historic resources inventory and National Register eligibility recommendations for the buildings over 50 years old on the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus. Their report was completed in August 2009. text/html 2024-07-09T19:36:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=b:bulger_william_m&rev=1720553768&do=diff Bulger, William M. President of the University of Massachusetts, 1996-2003 ---------- [William M. Bulger] William M. Bulger served as the 24th president of the University of Massachusetts from January 4, 1996 to September of 2003. Under President Bulger's leadership, the five-campus University saw dramatic increases in private support, alumni activity, research funding, and the academic scores of incoming freshmen. President Bulger also launched an award-winning television advertising cam… text/html 2024-07-09T19:36:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=b:bullock_matthew_w&rev=1720553801&do=diff Bullock, Matthew W. Football coach: 1904, 1907, 1908 b. 1881, Dabney, N.C. ---------- [Matthew W. Bullock] Born in Dabney, N.C., on Sept. 11, 1881, to Jesse and Amanda (Sneed), Matthew Bullock moved to Massachusetts with his family at the age of eight. Despite the hardships of poverty and discrimination, Bullock distinguished himself as a student athlete in the public schools in Boston and later at Everett High School in Everett, Mass., earning election as captain of the baseball, football… text/html 2024-07-09T19:38:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=b:butterfield_hall&rev=1720553904&do=diff Butterfield Hall Constructed: 1940 Architects: Louis Warren Ross ---------- Design and construction [Butterfield House] [Butterfield House] [Butterfield House] [Butterfield House] [Butterfield House] Butterfield House is an approximately 46,000 square foot student residence hall on the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts. The building is one of nine structures that comprise the text/html 2024-07-09T19:39:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=b:butterfield_kenyon_l&rev=1720553953&do=diff Butterfield, Kenyon L. President, Massachusetts Agricultural College: 1906-1924 ---------- [Kenyon Butterfield, ca.1906] [Kenyon Butterfield] Kenyon Butterfield served as president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College during an important growth period in the early part of the 20th century. A native of Michigan, Butterfield was trained as a rural sociologist at Michigan Agricultural College (BA, 1891) and the University of Michigan (AM, 1902), and gained experience as editor of the