- Saints' Rest
Infobox University campus
university = Michigan State University
color = #afddaf
name = Saints' Rest
picture = MSU Saints' Rest map.png
pic_caption = Saints Rest's former location on campus.
use =Dormitory
style = Eclectic
erected =1856
demolished =1876 (fire ) | location = Sacred Space
campus = main
namesake = "The Saints' Everlasting Rest" (1650 hymnal) byRichard Baxter
architect =John Clough Holmes
free_label = Excavated
free =2005
website = [http://special.newsroom.msu.edu/digMSU/ Dig MSU]Saints' Rest was the second
building erected on the campus of the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan (nowMichigan State University ). It was built in1856 and served as the school's onlydormitory until1870 , when Williams Hall was completed. Along with College Hall and ahorse barn , it was one of three buildings completed when the college opened for classes in1857 .As the campus's only
residence hall , the building had no official name. Students had a variety ofnickname s for it including "the hall", "the boarding hall", "old hall", or "the house". It was only after the hall burned that it acquired themoniker "Saints' Rest", which came from thePuritan devotional "The Saints' Everlasting Rest", written byRichard Baxter in1650 .The hall burned down during the December
1876 vacation despite the efforts of the Lansingfire department , which made the run all the way from Lansing in only 45 minutes.On
June 6 ,2005 , a team of Michigan Statearcheology professor s andstudent s began a six-weekexcavation on the site. The dig was part of MSU's2005 sesquicentennial celebration.References
*cite book | author=Kuhn, Madison. | title=Michigan State: The First Hundred Years, 1855-1955 | location=East Lansing | publisher=Michigan State University Press | year=1955 | id=ISBN 0-87013-222-9
*cite book | author=Miller, Whitney. | title=East Lansing: Collegeville Revisited (Images of America) | publisher=Arcadia Publishing | year=2002 | id=ISBN 0-7385-2045-4
*cite book | author=Stanford, Linda O. | title=MSU Campus: Buildings, Places, Spaces | location=East Lansing | publisher=Michigan State University Press | year=2002 | id=ISBN 0-87013-631-3External links
* [http://special.newsroom.msu.edu/digMSU/ Official University website]
* [http://www.msu.edu/unit/msuarhc/buildingexhibit.htm Gone But Not Forgotten: Campus Buildings That No Longer Exist]
* [http://kevinforsyth.net/ELMI/saints-rest.htm M.A.C. - Saints' Rest]
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