Preschool Laboratory, 1936
From CSU's Sense of Place: A Campus History of Colorado's Land-Grant University, by James E. Hansen, Gordon A. Hazard, and Linda M. Meyer. Fort Collins, CO: Colorado State University, 2018.
At first, this small wood-framed building constructed in 1908 was used primarily for work related to veterinary medicine as a pathology laboratory and was part of the original veterinary hospital complex along West Laurel Street. After the new veterinary hospital was opened in the fall of 1920, this building was used by the Botany department. In the late 1920s, it was taken over by Entomology professor, Dr. Charles R. Jones and his hives of honeybees for use as the Apiary. Prior to this time, the Apiary consisted of two small buildings west of the Civil and Irrigation Engineering Building.
The building was next used for a while as the Summer Practice House by students in the Department of Home Economics. After extensive remodeling during the summer of 1936, it was used by the department as a preschool facility to serve 20 children and their student observers studying child development and preschool techniques. In 1972, the Early Childhood Center, as it was now known, moved into Rockwell Hall. The vacated preschool building, deteriorating due to seepage from the nearby Arthur Ditch, was demolished during the summer of 1973. Lawn and spruce trees now occupy this site near the Meldrum Street entrance to campus.
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