BOTANY GREENHOUSE, FORESTRY GREENHOUSE
Greenhouse and Controlled Environmental Center
Built: 1966-67
Architect: Durrant, Deininger, Dommer, Kramer, Gordon
Contractor: Wm. Knudson & Son
The capital expenditure program for 1963-71 included $545,000 for Greenhouse and Controlled Environment Center.1 In 1963 the project was scheduled in the 1965-67 biennium.2 A contract with the architect was executed in August 1965.3 That project was for a greenhouse for Botany research.
An appropriation was also made by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Forest Service for a greenhouse for their and university forestry department use. The two funds were combined for a single project with separate buildings. A lease for the site of the forestry building was executed in late 1965.
Construction contracts were signed in March 1966,4 and were completed early in 1967.