. Picturesque Burlington : a handbook of Burlington, Vermont, and Lake Champlain . , they had rallied to the help of the collegeand subscribed S^oOo toward a new building. To guard againstanother wholesale destruction of the college property by fire, thenew plans called for three independent, but contiguous, buildings,three stories high, the central structure being for admin-istrative , and the other two for dormitories. The corner-stone of the North College was laid by Governor Van Ness, April26, 1825, Charles Adams, Esq., one of the graduates of 1804,delivering the
. Picturesque Burlington : a handbook of Burlington, Vermont, and Lake Champlain . , they had rallied to the help of the collegeand subscribed S^oOo toward a new building. To guard againstanother wholesale destruction of the college property by fire, thenew plans called for three independent, but contiguous, buildings,three stories high, the central structure being for admin-istrative , and the other two for dormitories. The corner-stone of the North College was laid by Governor Van Ness, April26, 1825, Charles Adams, Esq., one of the graduates of 1804,delivering the address. Two months later, Jiuie 29, GeneralLafayette, then on a visit to Vermont, laid the corner-stone ofSouth College. This event is commemorated by an inscribedstone, which, since the reconstruction of the buildings, rests atthe of the south-west corner of the central projection of themain building. The three .separate buildings were afterward[1846] joined by continuous walls, so as to present the appear-ance of a .single edifice. The central portion was surmounted by.
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