Remodel Bid

Here is a 3 page bid that Anderson Lumber (now Stock Building Products) did for the remodel of the barn. As you can see there was extensive additions that changed the inside. This could be important for historic preservation.

 

 

 I have also found some letters from Dr. Twain Tippets, Chair of the Dept of Fina Arts and Dr. Groutage to President Chase requesting materials to make the Art Barn the a ceramic hub on campus as well as the materials, with estimates to do so. There is also a letter from the Board of Trustees to President Chase (all these are c. 1959) okaying the purchases and remodel. Another aside apparently there was no natural gas in Logan at the time so the kilns were heated through butane.

Blue Prints

Like I mentioned in the meeting I found the original blue prints for the barn. Unfortuately these files are HUGE and are not uploadable to either blogspot or imageshack.com. I can email them to anyone if they want them and I am giving them to Bonnie on Friday on a DVD so you can find them there too.

They are AWESOME, btw. So if any of you know anybody with web skills send me a holler and I would like to talk to them about resizing them so we can post them.

Art Barn 1962

Here is a photo of the Art Barn from 1962. You'll notice the changes from 1940 as well as the cultural changes, cars versus ponies.

Here is the Photo Info

Found at http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/USU_Photos&CISOPTR=2089&CISOBOX=1&REC=7
 600x498 Pixels with an unknown Author

The Blueprints will be up tomorrow

I'm not sure you should totally avoid the witty banter or biting social commentary, Jon! Thanks for setting this up and getting us going.

Some photos of the Barn

As this is our working group I will try to avoid the witty banter that normally acompanies my blogging. I will also endevour to not make bitting social commentary as well.

So my first post will be two photos of the barn I have collected. This photo is the original barn in 1916. You can see Old Main  behind and the Widsoe building to the left.

Below is the New Horse Barn taken in 1940.  It is still being used as a barn at this point.