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Property Location
Property Features
This one-story astylistic utilitarian storage building features a rectangular shaped plan configuration, a concrete block foundation, a wood trim, and a rolled asphalt covered gable roof. The exterior wall material is comprised of board and batten and tar paper. (According to the survey report, the Town, Range and Section of this structure is 41 09W-33).
See photo codes SY 9/9 & 9/13 for district shots.
Description of Complex:
The Hayward State Nursery (41 09W-28) is located just southwest of Hayward off of US Highway 63 in Sawyer County. All of the cone extraction and seed storage for the state nursery program is done at the Hayward Nursery. This complex consists of a variety of buildings, a complex of storage buildings (9/6, 7, 8, 9, 10; 1936), the office (9/5; 1936), an old cooler building (9/15; 1936), a pump house (9/16; 1936), and dormitories of an historic CCC camp (9/11, 12; 1936). The nursery as a whole is laid out in a rigid grid, for planting, irrigating and harvesting seedlings. The buildings within this complex are arranged in three distinct areas: The main office and storage complex; the river complex including the pump house, the old cooler, and the extractory; and finally the CCC camp which includes a West Side Camp building and an East Side Camp building (which have been converted into storage buildings).
The first area, which includes the office, is in excellent condition and very well maintained. The buildings are all wood structures with clapboard siding and wood trim, and have all been painted aubusson green with white trim. They are all situated to create an outdoor room; a courtyard for service vehicles. The larger buildings are considered garages and are accented by vertically hung swinging doors. The office is quite detailed with exposed rafter tails, roof brackets and white wood portico piers. The buildings located by the river, the pump house and the old cooler building are also in excellent condition and are constructed in a similar manner to that of the main storage complex, with aubusson green wood clapboard, white wood trim and exposed rafter tails.
The thrid area, the converted historic CCC camp, consists of two buildings both constructed in 1936. The buildings are constructed with wood board, tar paper and battens. This type of construction was very typical of CCC camps in Wisconsin, espically for dormitory type buildings. These were the only two existing buildings of this sort that were found on the 1991 State Facilities Survey and were in good condition. This third area was unique because it was highlighted by a circular ring of trees probably planted when the camp was active.
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