Property Record
1930 LINDEN DR
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Agronomy Seed Laboratory |
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| Other Name: | Seed Building (UW#0119) |
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| Reference Number: | 160463 |
| Location (Address): | 1930 LINDEN DR |
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| County: | Dane |
| City: | Madison |
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| Year Built: | 1936 |
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| Additions: | 1955 |
| Survey Date: | 1975 |
| Historic Use: | university or college building |
| Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
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| Architect: | Bureau of Engineering (Madison) |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Historic Preservation-Public History. Addition built in 1955. A demolition permit was applied for on August 19, 2015. 1988- "The Agronomy Seed Building is set back from the road. it was built in 1940 and 1941, and is used for the storage and processing of agronomy crop seeds including small grain, forage grasses and legumes, and corn. The work is divided into two parts: breeding and genetics, and the production of foundation seed stocks which eventually provide seed corn for farmers throughout the state. In 1940, when Governor Julius Heil was likely to veto the legislature's bill for funds for the Seeds Building, agronomy Professor Norman Neal went to see him. he took some very small inbred ears of corn and some large hybrid ears, saying, "This is what I can do, and I need that building to do it in." ...as a result, Wisconsin was an early state to experiment with hybrids, which have played an important role in tripling corn yield per acre. Oat varieties Vicland and Dal, the first high-protein oats in the U.S., were developed in this building." |
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| Bibliographic References: | University of Wisconsin-Madison: Preliminary Evaluation of Buildings and Structures for Eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places. September 2009. Feldman, Jim. “Buildings of the University of Wisconsin.” Madison, WI : UW Madison, Archives and Records Management Service, 2006. Originally published 1997. http://madcat.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=7134919. Accessed: February 2012. University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison Tour Guide: Henry Mall and West Campus, 1988. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |