Engineering Building - Exterior
- A-387
- Item
- [ca. 1930]
View looking northwest of Engineering Building. Cars on road; bikes in bike racks, and shrubbery in foreground.
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Engineering Building - Exterior
View looking northwest of Engineering Building. Cars on road; bikes in bike racks, and shrubbery in foreground.
Engineering Building - Exterior
View looking west of University buildings from l to r: Crop Science Building; Engineering Building; Rutherford Rink; Livestock Pavilion; and National Research Council. Landscaping and road in foreground.
Engineering Building - Exterior
Winter scene looking northwest of Engineering Building; car parked at left. Lamp post visible in foreground.
Engineering Building - Addition - Construction
Progress shot of construction of Engineering Building Addition.
Engineering Building - Exterior
View of Engineering Building; addition not visible. Pond and row of trees visible in foreground.
Looking northwest with field in foreground. A rail car sits in front of the College Building at far right. Campus buildings in background (l to r): Power House, Engineering Building, Livestock Pavilion and University (Main) Barn visible in background.
Looking northwest with feed (grain) elevator and Rutherford Rink in foreground, Engineering Building at centre and Western College of Veterinary Medicine at top.
Looking north at campus buildings (l to r): Engineering Building, Livestock Pavilion, and Main Barn.
Returned Soldiers - Training - Group Photo
Returned men gathered outside tractor laboratory in Engineering Building; winter scene.
Engineering Building - Chemical Engineering Lab
View of Chemical Engineering Lab with equipment; located in Engineering Building.
Sketch of proposed Engineering Building.
Bio/historical note: The original Engineering Building was destroyed by fire on Friday, 13 March 1925.
A sketch by B. McLeod of Engineering Building.
A sketch by Christian Saboe of Engineering Building.
Engineering Building - Construction
Internal framing being erected for the new Engineering Building.
Bio/Historical Note: The original Engineering Building was designed to house the Agricultural Engineering Department, though it would eventually be home to the Department of Field Husbandry as well. The redbrick exterior was largely constructed during the summer of 1911 while the interior work was completed during the winter of 1911-12. The Engineering Building was designed by the original campus architects, David Brown and Hugh Vallance, and made allowances for the great variety of work within the field of agricultural engineering: the lower floor was designed for use in blacksmithing, cement work, engine construction and heavy farm machinery. The second floor contained a lecture room as well as room for woodwork, carpentry, pumps and farm-barn equipment. The third floor was devoted to a draughting room and light farm equipment. The main entrance to the building opened into the blacksmith’s forge. In 1913 a second wing was built with Brown and Vallance again serving as chief architects, as they would again in 1920. By December 1923 a final addition, designed by Saskatoon architect J. K. Verbeke, was completed by Bennett & White Construction for $8,800. At approximately 3 a.m. on the morning of Friday, 13 March 1925, a fire broke out in the north end of the building's Tractor Laboratory. In less than three hours everything but the Ceramic Lab had been completely destroyed. The fire came as a shock to many, as the entire building had been subjected to a rigorous fire inspection only a day prior to the blaze. Plans for a new Engineering Building to be constructed on the original foundation were promptly issued, and other building projects, including the long-anticipated Arts Building, were postponed.