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Metal Shop (Urbana, Illinois)

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
86003141

Added to NRHP
  
19 November 1986

Built
  
1895 (1895)

Opened
  
1895

Architect
  
Nathan Clifford Ricker

Metal Shop (Urbana, Illinois)

Location
  
102 S. Burrill Ave., Urbana, Illinois

MPS
  
University of Illinois Buildings by Nathan Clifford Ricker TR

Similar
  
Kenney Gym and Kenney G, Natural History Building, Chemical Laboratory, Altgeld Hall, Spurlock Museum

The Metal Shop, also known as Aeronautical Lab B, was a historic building located at 1022 South Burrill Avenue on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Built in 1895, the building served as a metal shop for the university's architecture and engineering students. Nathan Clifford Ricker, who later served as Dean of the College of Engineering, designed the building. The design was more functional than Ricker's other work on the campus; its only decorative element is a brick arched loggia in front of the entrance.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 9, 1986. It was demolished in 1993 but is still listed on the National Register.

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