HORTICULTURE COTTAGE
Built: 1916
Contractor: Building & Grounds Dept.
Razed: Moved off campus: 1959
Located just in front of and east of the center of the Metals Development Building.
Dean Curtiss first requested a house for the field superintendent in September of 1914, when he was directed to have plans prepared and a site recommended.1 However, it was August 1916 before funds were provided.
By the next January it could be reported:
We have completed a house for our horticultural foreman at a cost of $2100. This will enable the man having direct charge of the horticultural barn and orchards to live adjacent to where he works, instead of a mile and a half distant. It will give us more of his time, and this will be especially valuable during the fruit-growing and ripening seasons.2
The first tenant was L.V. Gowdey with rent free starting Jan. 1, 1917.
| Later tenants: | |
|---|---|
| 1926 - 1935 | H.J. Bechtel, Field Foreman |
| 1935 - 1936 | Christian Petersen, Artist-in-Residence |
| 1936 - 1948 | Ben Schaefer; Rent $300 in 1936 |
| 1948 - 1952 | Wm. A. Schworm, Mech. Engr.; Rent $420 |
| 1954 - 1955 | Hugo Plant,; Rent $420 |
| 1955 - 1956 | Hugo Plant.; Rent $480 |
In May 1959 the house was sold to C.A. Haugsted, who moved it to Ontario. He paid $826.50 to the college and the Atomic Energy Commission paid the difference between that figure and the appraised value of $7500.3