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1. View of Mechnical Hall, Alpha Hall, and the Octagonal Barn
View of Mechnical Hall, Alpha Hall, and the Octagonal Barn
Description
View looking west from the Administration Building (Benton Hall).
2. College greenhouses
College greenhouses
Description
This greenhouse complex was part of an expansion of college agricultural facilities that began in 1889. Standing on the right is George Coote, instructor in horticulture. The Administration Building (Benton Hall) is in the background.
3. View of the back wing of Alpha Hall, looking to the northeast
View of the back wing of Alpha Hall, looking to the northeast
Description
View also shows the water tower and Mechanical Hall. Alpha Hall was constructed in 1889.
4. Cauthorn Hall
Cauthorn Hall
Description
Originally named Cauthorn Hall and was later named Fairbanks Hall. It was constructed in 1892 as a men's dormitory. Women lived in the dormitory from 1912 until the early 1930s, when it was converted into a classroom building. The building is now home to the Art Department.
5. The OAC Administration Building as viewed from the west
The OAC Administration Building as viewed from the west
Description
Present day Benton Hall once served as the administration building for Oregon Agricultural College.
6. The OAC Administration Building, covered in snow
The OAC Administration Building, covered in snow
Description
Present day Benton Hall once served as the administration building for Oregon Agricultural College.
7. Corvallis College building, circa 1890
Corvallis College building, circa 1890
Description
The building was constructed in 1859 and expanded in 1876. It served as the primary bulding for what is now Oregon State University until 1888, when the new Administration Building (Benton Hall) was completed on the west edge of the original college farm.
8. Horticulture Building and greenhouses, circa 1895
Horticulture Building and greenhouses, circa 1895
Description
"Where A. B. Kidder spent two years."
9. Oregon Agricultural College students on the steps of the Station Building (now the Women's Center Building)
Oregon Agricultural College students on the steps of the Station Building (now the Women's Center Building)
Description
Fred Buchanan, Brady Burnett, Edward Getty Emmett, and Erma Laurence have been identified.
10. Professor George Coote tending to plants in an OAC greenhouse, circa 1890
Professor George Coote tending to plants in an OAC greenhouse, circa 1890
Description
The 1891-92 catalog, in which this photograph is published, described the greenhouse as "large and well supplied with many varieties of choice plants." Students were required to work five hours per week without pay; additional labor was paid at the rate of fifteen cents per hour. George Coote was born in Kent County, England in 1842 and (according to Lucy Skjelstad) worked as the gardener for Charles Darwin before emigrating to America. He arrived in Corvallis in 1877 via the Isthmus of Panama and farmed in an area west of Corvallis near Yaquina Bay until his appointment to the College faculty in 1888. He laid out the college grounds, erected and supervised the greenhouses, and taught in the Horticulture Department until 1908 when failing health forced him to take a leave of absence. He died several months later in November 1908. One of his daughters was married to Emile Pernot, the college photographer.
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