Meeting will discuss future of Mumford House

URBANA – Discussions of what to do with Mumford House, the oldest building on the University of Illinois campus, resume next week with a daylong public planning meeting headed by architects and engineers who recently evaluated the small frame structure.

The 139-year-old building, originally used as a model farmhouse and the home of early deans of the UI College of Agriculture, was to have been moved to the university's South Farms until the UI Board of Trustees intervened last March. The trustees voted to keep the building where it has been since 1870, just off Lorado Taft Drive near the McFarland Memorial Bell Tower on the UI's South Quad.

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