Flint Laboratory is an academic building and a former dairy laboratory at the

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) is a public land-grant research university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system and was founded in 1863 as the ...

. 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

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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.

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