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Veterinary Medicine Building, Colorado State College of Agriculture & Mechanical Arts (Building # 84, J.V.K. Wagar Building)

Larimer County

Designed by two important Colorado architects, Frank W. Frewen and Earl C. Morris, the 1939 building, with its 1957 addition, has a long association with Dr. I. E. Newsom and agricultural education at the college. 

A photo of the building in black and white with light bottom half and darker top half with gable roof above. In the foreground stand some leafless trees.

Veterinary Medicine Building, Colorado State College of Agriculture & Mechanical Arts (Building # 84, J.V.K. Wagar Building) (1940 photograph.)

From its construction in 1939 through 1979, the building contained the classrooms and laboratories of the Department of Pathology and Bacteriology.  The Public Works Administration, a New Deal era agency, partially funded the construction.