Flint Laboratory

Flint Laboratory
Flint Laboratory
	Flint Laboratory in 2011
Alternative names	Flint Hall; Dairy Building; Dairy Laboratory
General information
Type	Academic offices, classrooms, former research laboratories, restaurant
Architectural style	Georgian Revival
Coordinates	42°23′30″N 72°31′47″W / 42.3916°N 72.5296°W
Current tenants	vacant
Construction started	1911
Completed	1912
Technical details
Floor count	4
Design and construction
Architect(s)	James H. Ritchie
Main contractor	Lines Company

Flint 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.^[1] At the time of its completion, the laboratory was considered to be "one of the best equipped dairy buildings in the United States"^[2] and was described as "a model for the whole country" in one edition of the Works Progress Administration guidebook to Massachusetts.^[3] The building was named after Charles L. Flint, the university's fourth president, the first secretary of the state board of agriculture, a lecturer on dairy farming, and a prolific agricultural writer who wrote a well-received textbook on "Milch Cows" in the late 19th century.

Today the building is vacant and awaiting renovation beginning in 2025. It was last used by the university's Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management Archived 2011-10-03 at the Wayback Machine, and included the former "dairy bar" that had been repurposed as a restaurant known as Fletcher's Café, which was run by students of the hospitality program.

References

^ MAC Annual Report, March 1912, pp. 25-26.
^ Sargent, Porter E., ed. (1917). A Handbook of New England (2nd ed.). Boston: George H. Ellis Company. p. 342. Retrieved 3 August 2011.
^ Massachusetts; a guide to its places and people. Boston: Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Massachusetts. Riverside Press, Houghton Mifflin Company. 1937. p. 127. Retrieved 3 August 2011.

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