Dairy Machine Shed
Dairy Machine Shed
Herrick Archives Building 330
A. IDENTIFICATION & LOCATION
1. Name
1.1 Never officially named by Board of Trustees action.
1.2 Alternate names noted:
Farm Implement Storage Shed
Implement Shed--Waterman Tract
2. Location
2.1 Located at 2467 Carmack Road. (May be listed at 1110 West Lane Avenue in old records.) See map below.
2.2 For greater detail, see Sheet 39 in the book of campus maps in the University Archives.
For identification of other buildings shown, see Appendix A.
3. General Description
3.1 Type of construction:
Frame structure enclosed by corrugated metal on rear and both ends.
3.2 No. of stories:
One.
3.3 Increments of construction:
Probably no additions. See Part B
3.4 Present area of building as shown in inventory records of Division of Campus Planning:
2, 937 square feet gross; 2,852 square feet net assignable
PART B--PLANNING & CONSTRUCTION
1. No reference to construction of this building has been found in Board of Trustee minutes. Records in the Office of the University Architect (Project 3262) indicate that bids were taken in November 1932 and that the contract was let to Herman L. Weller on a base bid of $616.00. He was later paid an extra $85.00 for construction of an additional 16 feet on the length of the building.
Professor Emeritus Lawrence Kunkle recalls that Thomas Phillips, former farm superintendent, had once told him that part of this building had been constructed by farm workers. One bid (L. R. Moor)included a deduction of $45.00 "if the old building remains." This "old building" may have been the shed referred to by Phillips. Physical inspection of the present building would seem to indicate that it was all constructed at one time, and that any earlier building built by the farm men was removed CD CD when Building 330 was constructed.
[See Addendum No. 1,2,3]
Also, Howard Dwight Smith, University Architect, in reporting the bids to Cabinet referred to this project as "rebuilding and repair of the Implement Shed." This wording suggests a pre-existing building, possibly the one referred to by Phillips.
C. PHOTOGRAPHS
1. In Photoarchives:
X 7477--building in rear
X 7478--building in foreground
X 7479--building at left
John H. Herrick
March 16, 1974
ADDENDUM NO. 1
An aerial photograph (X 1008) taken by the Aerial Photographic Unit of the U. S. Army Air Corps from Wright Field in Dayton does not show any structure at this location. This photograph was taken in the spring or early summer of 1929. Thus the "old building" referred to in Part B must have been constructed after the spring of 1929.
John H. Herrick
May 13, 1974
ADDENDUM NO. 2
Cabinet on May 5, 1932 attthorized Tan Phillips, the farm superintendent, to construct an implement shed using materials from tearing down the old barn at the Pugh residence (983) and the double house on Lisle Road (H940). This supports Professor Kunkle's recollections reported in Part B of this report.
It would appear that the building was started in the spring of 1932 by Tom Philips and his crew and that the building was then enlarged by Weller on his contract later in the year.
John H. Herrick
February 10, 1976
ADDENDUM NO. 3
The suppositions in Addendum No.2 are further supported by a Cabinet minute on