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ENGINEER'S COTTAGE

Edgerton House

Built: 1989, Moved: 1915

Contractor: W.M. Rich

Razed: 1970


Located about fifty-feet west of Horticulture Hall (site of 1978 addition)

This two-story frame house was built for J.J. Edgerton with an appropriation of $1,000. 1 A bath tub was installed in 1904 while Pro fessor Holden lived there. Steam was extended to the house in 1913.

In 1915 the building was moved to the area south of the Physical Plant where it was the easternmost of the five frame houses located there until the addition to the Women’s Gymnasium was built. It was razed in 1970.

Occupants:
1898 - J.J. Egerton, Prof. P.G. Holden
1907 - 1914 George Mitchell
1935 - 1954 S.C. Edwards
1954 - 1963 Frank Pepin
1963 - 1967 Ronald Rasmussen
1967 - 1970 Donald Kluck
  1. Minutes, April 1898 ↩︎

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