Old+Wells+Hall+1877+-+1905

"When the old boarding hall burned, December 8, 1876, fortunately th e legislature convened in the January following and appropriated $25,000 for a new dormitory which was afterwards called Wells Hall, for Hon. Hezikiah G. Wells, President of the Board of Agriculture in 1866 and long after. The plans were made by Watkins & Arnold, architects, and built in 1877, by Peale & Miller, of Grand Rapids. Mr. F.C. Miller was a student at the College, 1867-72. In 1889 he was granted the honorary degree of Master of Science."