from the beginning, was very
materially supplied in Rockefeller Hall, which is a three-story brick
structure, furnishing accommodations for 150 students. This need for
dormitories has been still further met through the gift of three brick
cottages by Miss Julia Emery, an American now living in London. Two of
these buildings were finished last year, and young men are now living in
them. The third is nearing completion. All are two stories high, with a
hall running through the middle, and contain 40 rooms of good size.

Until last year the offices of the Institute were scattered over the
grounds wherever room could be found. A New York friend, who does not
permit the use of his name, seeing the need of the school for a building
in which the offices might be concentrated, thus greatly increasing the
efficiency of its administrative work, gave $19,000 for this purpose.
The Office Building, completed in the latter part of 1903, is the result
of this benefaction. It is two-and-a-half stories high, and contains the
offices of the Principal, the Principal's Secretary, Treasurer, Auditor,
Business Agent, Commandant, Registrar, and the Post-Office and Savings
Department.

[Illustration: THE OFFICE BUILDING IN PROCESS OF ERECTION.

Student carpenters shown at work.]

The most pretentious building owned by the Institute is the Collis P.
Huntington Memorial Building, the new home of the Academic Department,
which is the gift of Mrs. Huntington as a memorial to her husband, who
was one of Tuskegee's stanchest supporters. It is built near the site of
the original building, Porter Hall, which it displaces as the center of
the academic work of the school. The outside dimensions are 183 feet by
103 feet. It is four stories in height. Besides recitation-rooms for all
the classes, it contains a gymnasium in the basement for young women,
and an assembly-room on the top floor capable of seating 800 persons.
The finishing is in yellow pine. The buildings of the Institute show a
steady progression in quality of workmanship, materials, and
architectural design and efficiency, from the rather rough, wooden
Porter Hall erected by hired workmen in 1882 to the stately Huntington
Hall built by students in 1904.

Located at different points on the grounds and on lots detached are
cottages occupied as residences by teachers and officers of the
Institute.

The furnishings for all the buildings, as well as the buildings
themselves, have been