Editing Russell Sage Laboratory (section)

=Expansion=
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute only had 485 students when the building was funded in 1907. But RPI continued to grow and because of this growth, Sage Lab also had to grow. The Sage Annex was a four story addition located northeast of the east wing and was began in April, 1923 for a cost of 235,000, or about $4 million today.[7] This addition was built to expand the Electrical Engineering department and featured many electrical labs and large lecture halls, as well as a top floor dedicated entirely to electrochemistry and electrometallurgy.[11] Despite the original contract planning on the building being finished within eight months[8], the new section of the building was not finished until May, 1924 and was not used by students and faculty until September 1924. [9] Upon the completion of the structure, some students expressed disappointment, stating in an article of The Polytechnic from May, 1923 that they did not like the location of the addition, and that they thought the green paint that was chosen did not match the rest of the structure.[10]