-Teaching, Research and Office
1856 - College Hall completed, the first classroom building at MAC.
1880 - First Botanical Laboratory completed. Destroyed by fire in 1890.
1893 - Second Botanical Laboratory (now designated "Old Botany Building") constructed on E Circle Drive. Addition built in 1909. Now houses part of Department of Economics.
1949 - Natural Science Building completed. Botany & Plant Pathology occupied floors 1-4 of W wing.
1968 - Plant Biology Building completed, as an addition to the East end of the MSU/DOE Plant Research Laboratory. Funds were provided by a grant from the National Science Foundation. Matching funds were provided by MSU, which also funded concurrent construction of the SE wing for teaching laboratories and herbaria.

-Beal Botanical Garden - Established in 1873; under control of Botany & Plant Pathology until 1950.

-Plant Collections

Beal - Darlington Herbarium: Established in 1860's with 20,000 specimens; 1905, 102,000 specimens; 1996, 310,000 seed plant specimens.
Cryptogamic Herbarium: 210,000 specimen of which 140,000 are lichen.
Live Plant Collection: Housed in Old Horticultural Greenhouse, 21,000 sq.ft.
Paleobotanical Collection: 150,000 specimens. Housed in Plant Biology and three other buildings.

-Research Farm - Prior to 1942-43, experimental plots occupied the present football practice field south of Shaw Lane. In 1942-43, the departmental farm was relocated to Beaumont Road near the WKAR transmission tower. The present farm on College Road was established in 1967.