Ellis Drive Historical Area
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The Ellis Drive Historical Area is an older section of the UMass Amherst containing many of the university's earliest laboratory buildings. Several of these buildings have since been converted for other uses, but research still continues in many of them to this day.
Historic Buildings
- Agricultural Engineering North
- Chenoweth Laboratory
- Draper Hall
- Draper AnnexDraper Hall AnnexThe Draper Hall Annex is a single-story office building which houses emergency medical services at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The building is adjoined to Draper Hall, and has served as an office space, classroom, and at one time, home to the university's polymer science...
- East Experiment Station
- Flint LaboratoryFlint LaboratoryFlint 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...
- Goessmann Laboratory
- Hatch Laboratory
- Skinner Hall
- Stockbridge Hall
- West Experiment Station
Other Buildings
- Hasbrouck Laboratory
- John W. Lederle Graduate Research CenterJohn W. Lederle Graduate Research CenterThe John W. Lederle Graduate Research Center, also known as Lederle Tower, is a building in Amherst, Massachusetts. It is part of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It contains research laboratories, conference rooms, and offices for many departments within the College of Natural Sciences...
- Murray D. Lincoln Campus CenterMurray D. Lincoln Campus CenterMurray D. Lincoln Campus Center, is a skyscraper in Amherst, Massachusetts that is built in the modernist style. The building and attached parking garage were designed by Marcel Breuer. The building also hosts The Campus Center Hotel on the upper floors of the building. The hotel consists of 116...
- Physical Plant Complex
- Worcester Dining Commons
Former buildings
- The Boarding House
- Abigail Adams HouseAbigail Adams HouseThe Abigail Adams House was a dormitory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst that existed from 1919 until 1967. After a devastating fire and an attempt at renovating it, the building was torn down in 1967 to make room for the John W. Lederle Graduate Research Center.-External links:*...
- Infirmary Houses
- Marshall HallMarshall Hall (Amherst, Massachusetts)Marshall Hall, otherwise known as Marshall Laboratory, was the first microbiology laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Constructed in 1916, it housed the college's microbiology department for a number of years, and was used extensively for bacteriology classes and research. The...