Ceramics Building
18. Ceramics Building
The building best known as the Ceramics Building, housed two separate facilities: the Ceramic Engineering Kiln House and the Mining Engineering Laboratory. Designed by William C. Zimmerman, the architect for the state of Illinois, the building was completed in 1913. At the time, the cost was only $25,000 – equivalent to about $775,000 today.
The Ceramic Engineering Kiln House connected to the Ceramic Engineering Building and added 11,200 square feet of kilns, furnaces and heavy machines for working with clay.
The Mining Engineering Laboratory measured 3,600 square feet and housed a chemistry laboratory and a Mine Rescue Station, which was used to train mine rescue workers.
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