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Buildings French Hall 
French Hall is named after Henry Flagg French, the first President of the
Massachusetts Agricultural College, administering the College from 1864
to 1866. Although President French served before the first students enrolled,
his work permitted the College to become established. Originally from Exeter,
New Hampshire, President French was a graduate of Dartmouth College and
a lawyer and farmer before assuming his duties in the College. As a historical
note, President French was the father of Daniel Chester French, the artist
best known for his sculpture of Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial. French
Hall was built for use by the Department of Horticulture.The first section
was constructed circa 1908 and the second part circa 1927. The administrative
offices of Plant and Soil Sciences are located currently in French Hall.
Faculty in French Hall are those with interests in floriculture, plant genetics,
and nursery management.
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Stockbridge Hall is named after Levi P. Stockbridge, the sixth President
of the Massachusetts Agricultural College (1880-1882). Before joining
the College as farm superintendent, he was a farmer in Hadley, a member
of the state Board of Agriculture, and a representative in the General
Court. While at the College, but before becoming the President, he developed
several mixed fertilizers and helped support the Experiment Station with
proceeds from patents on his "Stockbridge Manures." Stockbridge Hall was
built in 1914, as the agricultural building. Today, the building contains
the administrative offices of the College of Natural Resources and the
Environment in addition to classrooms and research laboratories. Plant
and Soil Sciences faculty in Stockbridge Hall have interests in soil science,
medicinal and aromatic plants, agronomy, and floriculture.
Erected in 1959, Bowditch Hall was the first of a group of buildings in
the Master Plan for the College of Agriculture. The building, built to
house the Department of Floriculture, was named for Nathaniel I. Bowditch,
a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Massachusetts.
Other individuals mistakenly associated with the naming of the building
are the famous navigator Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838) and Lieutenant
Nathaniel Bowditch, a soldier who lost his life fighting the Rebellion
in the Civil War. Current faculty in Bowditch Hall have interests in agronomy,
pomology, and vegetable crops.
