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Hog Houses

Building Name:
Hog Houses
Alternate Names:
Piggery
Historical Note:
Hog Houses on campus date back to the 1860s, with the first hog pen built in 1865, and a piggery completed in 1867. Additional structures were added over time, including a swine house in 1880, though early facilities were poorly documented. After the Piggery was destroyed by fire in 1885, a new hog house was built in 1891 and remained in use until it burned in 1922.
Year Built:
1865
Year Removed:
1922
More Information:
Day Digital Edition Description
Hog Houses on campus date back to the 1860s, with the first hog pen built in 1865, and a piggery completed in 1867. Additional structures were added over time, including a swine house in 1880, though early facilities were poorly documented. After the Piggery was destroyed by fire in 1885, a new hog house was built in 1891 and remained in use until it burned in 1922.
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Photographs Containing Hog Houses: (9 Items)
Photograph of sheep in...
Photograph of sheep in a snow-covered pasture, with the cattle feeding barn in the background. The view is looking north-northwest.
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Photograph of horses grazing...
Photograph of horses grazing on the south campus area, with sheep barns in the left background, and the hog house in the right background. Looking north, with a creek in the mid-ground.
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Etching of the Piggery...
Etching showing the Piggery from the 1884 catalog depicting the swine breeding barn. Annotation: "Piggery 1884 catalog."
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Etchings from 1883 catalog...
Etchings showing the horse, cattle, and swine barns, and the creamery. Images show general views of the buildings, with one showing horses, people, and livestock in the foreground in front of barns. Annotation: "Picture appears in 1883 catalogue. A swine house burned about 1885 and was probably the piggery. Horse Barn built 1970 Cattle Barn built 1861."
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Photograph of the Experiment...
Photograph showing the barn complex at the Agricultural Experiment Station. It shows the Judging Pavilion, the Experiment Station Barn, the Cattle Barn, the current Theater Workshop, and the current Landscape Architecture building.
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Shropshire and Rambouillet sheep...
A flock of Shropshire and Rambouillet sheep appear in this photograph along with the Hog Barn in the distance. The Farm Crops Laboratory can be seen in the background to the right side in the photograph.
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Swine Barn in winter...
In a wintertime scene, the Hog Barn is seen in the distance through the trees. According to an interoffice communication from William F. LaGrange this photograph shows the barn as located on the north side of fampus in the early 1920's, north of the Women's Gym and close to the railroad tracks. The road shown in the photograph came up to the Dairy Building and the Agricultural Annex.
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Photograph looking down the...
Photograph looking northeast past East Hall and down the Fort Dodge, Des Moines and Southern Railway tracks. In the distance a piece of the Carpenter Shop (Judging Pavilion #3) can be seen to the left of the tracks and the Power and Heating Plant can be seen behind where the tracks curve east. Annotation: ''East Hall, judging pavilion, power & heating plant, hog house. May 5, 1913.''
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Aerial view of Margaret...
1918 or 1919. Margaret Hall, Botany Hall, Morrill Hall, Bookstore, Exp. Sta. Barn, Farm House, Mortensen House, Corner of Ag Hall (Curtiss).
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Preferred Citation:
"Hog Houses", Campus Cornerstones, Digital Scholarship and Initiatives
Reference Link:
https://digital.lib.iastate.edu/projects/campuscornerstones/items/buildingprofile0054.html
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