Flint Laboratory is an academic building and a former
dairy laboratory at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst
The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, ...
. It was the first building of the
Ellis Drive "agricultural group", including
Stockbridge Hall and an unbuilt hall for agricultural mechanics.
[MAC Annual Report, March 1912]
pp. 25-26. At the time of its completion, the laboratory was considered to be "one of the best equipped dairy buildings in the United States"
and was described as "a model for the whole country" in one edition of the
Works Progress Administration
The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, i ...
guidebook to Massachusetts.
The building was named after
Charles L. Flint, the university's fourth president, the first secretary of the state board of agriculture, a lecturer on dairy farming, and a prolific agricultural writer who wrote a well-received textbook on "Milch Cows" in the late 19th century.
Today the building has been almost entirely converted to office space for the university'
Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management however the former "dairy bar" has been repurposed as a restaurant known a
Fletcher's Café which is run by students of the hospitality program.
References
See also
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Charles L. Flint
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Ellis Drive Historical Area
{{University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Massachusetts Amherst buildings
School buildings completed in 1912
Dairy buildings in the United States
1912 establishments in Massachusetts
Agricultural buildings and structures in Massachusetts