The East Experiment Station was constructed in Amherst on the campus of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, now the University of Massachusetts, in 1889-1890. It was built with funds made available due to the Hatch Act of 1887, which provided federal funding for the benefit of State agricultural experiment stations. The Richardsonian Romanesque structure was designed by architect Emory Ellsworth and was a companion to his 1889 West Experiment Station. At one time the East Experiment Station, also known as the Hatch Experiment Station, had an attached shed and an ornate Victorian greenhouse, which was later removed. The building, which was built to house the Department of Vegetable Pathology, has been altered for other uses and currently is home to the offices of the University of Massachusetts Press.