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 During The Campaign for MSU, we seek to raise $15.3 million for the three Laboratory Row buildings that remain to be funded and restored - Cook Hall, Old Botany, and Chittenden Hall - as well as the Sesquicentennial Gardens that will link them. It is important to note that while the figures below are good estimates for the planned restoration work today, these costs, just like those for new construction, are likely to increase by the close of the Campaign. Your consideration of this project now will do much to keep project costs in check.
MSU is offering a number of naming opportunities within the Campus Heritage Initiative's Laboratory Row Project. At the highest level of giving, MSU offers donors the opportunity to rename the buildings, in keeping with the traditions of the University and as approved by the MSU Board of Trustees. This has been done with both Eustace-Cole Hall, which added the name of the donor to the historic name, and Marshall-Adams Hall, which linked the historic name with that of someone its donor wished to honor. Other naming gifts at many different levels are also available - floors in the buildings, faculty offices, graduate student offices, classrooms, conference rooms, seminar rooms, garden spaces, decorative garden walks - and can carry your name or the name of someone you wish to honor. Please see the information pages that follow for each of the buildings and the Sesquicentennial Gardens. The gifts we seek are expendable, meaning they will be pledged and paid over one to five years to cover restoration costs. They may be given toward a specific naming opportunity, or given generally to the overall Lab Row Project. For donors interested in making endowment gifts, we will be pleased to accept them to provide resources for the maintenance, in perpetuity, of these special buildings and the Sesquicentennial Gardens over the decades to come. Finally, if you are a donor interested in including Laboratory Row in your estate plan, this too will be gratefully accommodated. |
