Agriculture Farm Shop
The Agriculture Farm Shop was a one-story building southwest of the main campus at the corner of Avenue M and 22nd Street.
The building was one of four structures built for the Josey School of Vocational Education, a post-WWII program initiated by SHSTC. The building contained two large laboratories as well as classrooms and office space. A narrow breezeway to the south connected this building to the Metals Lab [3].
Older maps and documents refer to the structure as the Agriculture Technology Lab or Agriculture Mechanics Shop.
The 1982 campus master plan says S.I. Morris Associates of Houston renovated this building and the adjacent Woods Lab in the early 1980s [1].
In the mid-to-late 1990s, the building's roof collapsed, and in August 1997, the Board of Regents permitted the university to demolish the structure [2]. Its functional successor was the Agricultural Mechanization Center, located west of this site.
SHSU constructed the University Storage Facilty on the site.
About
Timeline
1945:
Constructed
Jan. 1980:
Renovated [1]
c.1997-98:
Demolished [2]
Resources
Sources
[1] SHSU: 2000 (campus master plan, 1982).
[2] "Regents Approve Computer Lab Modifications, Vacation Schedule". Today@Sam (Aug. 8, 1997).
[3] Interview with Bobby Lane (2009).