UVM's
original college building was constructed on the present site of Old Mill
in 1802. Designed by John Johnson of Burlington, the rectangular, four-story,
hip-roofed, brick structure was modeled after Nassau Hall on the campus
of Princeton University. The building contained a two-story chapel, recitation
rooms, library, museum, medical hall, chemical laboratory, and forty-six
student dormitory rooms. Except for a brief period in 1813-14 when the
college's activities were suspended during the war with Great Britain,
the structure remained the sole academic building of the University until
it was destroyed by fire in 1824.
The College Building at the University of Vermont , 1802-1824, engraving
from Thomson's Gazetteer, 1824. (UVM Achives)
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