Formerly known as Eustace Hall, Eustace-Cole Hall located on Laboratory Row is the only building on

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's main campus in

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that is on the

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. Designed in a mix of " Queen Anne massing,

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features, and Shingle Style", it was built in 1888 as the Horticultural Laboratory Building. Its design has been variously attributed to noted MSU alumnus and noted horticulturist

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and to

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architect William Appleyard It housed the horticulture department until 1924 when a new horticulture building (now known as ''Old Horticulture'') was opened. It then became the University College Building until 1961 when it was renamed for Harry J. Eustace who chaired the Horticulture Department from 1908 to 1918. The third-oldest extant building on the MSU campus, it was listed on the Michigan Register of Historic Places on March 3, 1971 as the ''Horticultural Laboratory Building'' and was listed on the National Register on September 3, 1971 as ''Eustace Hall''. In 1999, Eustace Hall underwent a $3 million renovation funded in part by a major donation from MSU alumni Jeffrey N. Cole (BS, 1970) and Kathryn C. Cole (MBA, 1990) of

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and was renamed Eustace-Cole Hall in their honor. Eustace-Cole Hall now serves as the headquarters of the MSU Honors College.President McPherson Renovation Announcement
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{{National Register of Historic Places National Register of Historic Places in Ingham County, Michigan Michigan State Historic Sites in Ingham County Queen Anne architecture in Michigan Richardsonian Romanesque architecture in Michigan Shingle Style architecture in Michigan

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