In 2005, MSU will celebrate its 150th anniversary. This anniversary will be a proud moment for MSU and the entire land-grant university movement - a national system of public universities founded by a federal gift of public lands. It was as part of this movement that Michigan State was established as the nation's first land-grant college, the prototype and pioneer. The University and its many financial supporters have focused on the restoration of the buildings of Laboratory Row with an eye toward their becoming something very special for MSU's Sesquicentennial Celebration. Their wisdom in including Lab Row as a key bricks-and-mortar project in The Campaign for MSU was confirmed when, even before initiation of the Campaign's silent phase, an alumnus came forward with a $3 million gift to restore and name the first of the six buildings, Eustace-Cole Hall. The building attracts the eye of the passerby with its bold mix of Queen Anne massing, Richardsonian Romanesque features, and Shingle Style detailing. Designed by William D. Appleyard as the first horticultural laboratory in the United States and built in 1888, the now-restored building immediately became the one to which the University could point to suggest the reuse potential and fundraising appeal of its neighbors. Eustace-Cole Hall, now home of the Honors College, soon was joined by another Lab Row building. Agriculture Hall, a 1909 Neo-Classical building by Edwin A. Bowd, underwent its first phase of restoration, allowing it to remain in full use, and was expanded with a sympathetically designed Annex, dedicated and opened in 2000. Agriculture Hall remains the home of several departments and offices in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. The visual impact of these first two Campus Heritage projects located at either end of Lab Row will soon be joined by Marshall Hall, the recipient of a $6 million naming gift from an alumnus made on the eve of the Campaign Kick-Off in September, 2002. With its restoration begun in 2003, the 1902 eclectically Romanesque, two-and-one-half story building will be completed for dedication during the University's 2005 Sesquicentennial Year. The building, designed by Edwin A. Bowd for Charles E. Marshall, a professor of bacteriology who established within its walls the nation's first bacteriological laboratory, has become home of the Department of Economics in the College of Social Science. The donor chose to rename the hall Marshall-Adams to honor his mentor, Walter Adams, longtime economics professor, author, and former MSU president. Click here for map that locates the historic buildings of Lab Row. We now turn our attention to the three remaining buildings in Lab Row - Cook Hall (1889), Old Botany (1892), and Chittenden Hall (1901). As we plan for their restoration as part of the Campus Heritage Initiative, we believe they warrant your consideration as symbols of MSU's ability to meet the needs of the world through the advancement of knowledge in dozens of disciplines in the sciences, the social sciences, the humanities, and the arts.