Dear Fellow Barn Members,

Here is a small version of the Architectual drawing which was discovered in the USU Special Collections. It is a proposed Music Hall from 1952 (well before the Art Barn). It has some names and details attached to it that are most interesting. Unfortuntately the quality is not excellent as I had to downgrade resolution for blogger purposes. If you would like to access the full print quality image just ask me and I am sure we can work it out. Otherwise I will be giving Bonnie a burned disc with this drawing in good resolution as well as the other documents I have posted on it as well.

Jason

*Hint - Click on the image and it will enlarge so you can read the writing for the Music Barn.

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Copy of actual project request form for remodel of Art Barn and letters from William Lye and others. It appears in the third letter that they were toying with the idea of demolishing the Barn and putting up a new structure in its place, but they wanted to retain the historic significance of the building and took steps to help that.

Jason

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These are copies of the work order for renovation and a proposal to turn the Barn into a Hobby center

Jason

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Dear Fellow Barn Work Members,

These are letters and memos from Harold Kinzer who apparently had a large role to play in getting use of the Barn for his own department and utilizing the space.

Jason

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Dear Fellow Barn Members,
These are drawings done by Harold Kinzer and the use of the Barn space by the various departments. The letter is from Gael Lindstrom about using the Barn.

Jason

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Dear Fellow Barn Work Group Members,

Here are a few more documents which you might find interesting. They relate to proposed uses of the Art Barn and give insight into who was involved in the decision and renovation process. These are documents from the Food Services and the Photography department for space in the Barn.

Jason

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Dear Fellow Barn Project Members,

Today while I was at the special collections Bob Parson told me that he had come across some Art Barn documents that I might find interesting. I looked through several folders and discovered quite a few documents of interest. It seems that when the Art Department shifted to the new Art building there were quite a few departments debating and asking for the space.

There were several letters and proposed architectural drawings which were created by the departments as a proposal for the space. I made a few copies of some interesting documents for my own use and thought that you might find them interesting as well. One of which was from Thad Box (I was able to interview him recently and thought this added some context to it) about the use of the Barn by his College, another from the Art Department still wishing to use the kilns and space, and was a floor layout of the first two floors being used by different departments (unfortunately the third floor drawing is not in the collection).

One thing which I could not copy due to size but which I thought was interesting were two architectural drawing (fairly large size) of a proposed Music Hall from 1952. Apparently the university was proposing, planning, or toying with the idea of transforming the Horse Barn into a Music Hall and musical instruction facility. From the date it is possible that this idea formulated well before the university even thought of the Art Barn.

Jason Neil