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Caption: Book - 30 Year Master Plan (Tilton & O'Donnell)
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The Agricultural Building 121 During the time Mr. Piatt h^d been preparing preliminary studies for the Campus Plan and also for the style of building he proposed, a Special Committee had been completing their survey to determine the exact site for the New Agriculture Building. This Committee made a report to the Board on March 14, 1922, in which they concurred in the recommendations of the Dean of the College of Agriculture, the Supervising Architect, and Mr. Piatt, that the proposed building be located just south of the Experimental Plots, to the south-east of the Auditorium, and that the first unit be devoted to class rooms and offices. This recommendation was approved. At the same meeting Professor White exhibited sketches prepared by the Consulting Architect, showing the plan and the style he proposed for this building. The work was highly satisfactory, and the Board took immediate action authorizing Mr. Piatt to prepare final plans, in consultation with the Supervising Architect, and asked that plans and specifications be completed at once. Mr. Piatt continued his studies of the Campus Plan, carrying the work from a preliminary sketch stage to a completely developed plan. The finished plans and models, together with certain recommendations, were submitted to the Board in October, 1922, and were accepted by them. Evidently Mr. Piatt had arrived at a solution of the problem which was highly satisfactory to the Campus Plan Commission, the Board of Trustees, and other University officials, and they were favorably disposed to have future developments proceed along the lines recommended by him. This satisfaction was manifested in the action taken by the Campus Plan Commission, which, through its Chairman, Mrs. Blake, made a report at this same meeting of the Board, stating that the purpose of the Commission had been accomplished, and asked that it be discharged. A vote of thanks and appreciation was extended to the retiring Commission, by the members of the Board, for the very valuable service rendered to the University during the two and one-half years which the Commission had served.
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