Floor Plans

Tech Tower

• Plans from 1888-89 Annual Catalogue. Note the double grand staircases in the central lobby area. These were removed for fire-proofing in the early 1960's and replaced by the existing enclosed staircase. The coat room seems overly large, as does the janitor's room.
  
• Plans from 1889-90 Annual Catalogue. Identical to the previous year's catalogue.
  
• Plans from 1890-91 Annual Catalogue. The second and third floors have been swapped from the previous plan. This same plan appears in the following year's catalog. Later photographs, however, show the Chemical Laboratory to be located on the third floor rather than the second as depicted here. (This error remained uncorrected until the 1898-89 Catalogue.)
  
• Plans from 1891-92 Annual Catalogue. Only slightly different from the previous year.
  
• Plans from 1892-93 Annual Catalogue. Only slightly different from the previous year.
  
• Plans from 1893-94 Annual Catalogue. Identical to the previous year's catalogue.
  
• Plans from 1895-96 Annual Catalogue. Only slightly different from the previous year.
  
• Plans from 1896-97 Annual Catalogue. Only slightly different from the previous year.
  
• Plans from 1897-98 Annual Catalogue. Missing.
  
• Plans from 1898-99 Annual Catalogue. By the time of this printing, space has apparently become a problem and many changes have been made, including better use of the coat and janitor's rooms. Also in 1899-1900 Catalogue.
  
• Current - Ground Floor
  
• Current - First Floor
  
• Current - Second Floor
  
• Current - Third Floor
  
• Current - Fourth Floor
  

Shop Building

• Plans from 1888-89 Annual Catalogue. Note the detailed legend of tools and equipment. "The workshops have been equipped with machinery and tools from the best makers, and of the latest patterns, at a cost of over twenty thousand dollars. In pursuance of the fundamental idea of giving the student access to the best machinery and experimental knowledge of the best methods of mechanical work, the commission have put the mechanical department on a footing with the most approved and complete shops in the country, and hardly any process requiring fine material and accurate workmanship is beyond its capacity."
  
• Plans from 1889-90 Annual Catalogue. Identical to the previous year's catalogue.
  
• Plans from 1890-91 Annual Catalogue. Only slightly different from the previous year.
  
• Plans from 1891-92 Annual Catalogue. Only slightly different from the previous year. The Shop building had been destroyed by fire by this time of this printing. A brief explanation is included in the text: "The Fire. On the 21st of April, 1892, the workshops of the institution were destroyed by fire. These are now in process of re-erection, and will be ready for use, with full equipment of tools and machinery, by the opening of the session, September 28, 1892." Newspaper articles about the fire.
  
• Plans from 1892-93 Annual Catalogue. Plans for the rebuilt shop building are depicted for the first time in this year's catalogue. From the 1896-97 Catalogue: "With the insurance on the building and machinery, and additional appropriation made by the Legislature, the building and machinery were at once replaced, and the result of the misfortune was in the end most beneficial, as both building and equiments are superior to what were destroyed."
  
• Plans from 1893-94 Annual Catalogue. Only slightly different from the previous year.
  
• Plans from 1894-95 Annual Catalogue. Missing.
  
• Plans from 1895-96 Annual Catalogue. Missing.