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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCooley Laboratory (24GA1868) final MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD For the Montana National Register of Historic Places Program and State Antiquities Database Montana State Historic Preservation Office Montana Historical Society PO Box 201202, 1410 8 th Ave Helena, MT 59620-1202 Property Address: Montana State University Campus Historic Address (if applicable): NA City/Town: Bozeman Site Number: 24GA1868 (An historic district number may also apply.) County: Gallatin Historic Name: Medical Science Research Building Original Owner(s): Montana State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts Current Ownership Private Public Current Property Name: Cooley Laboratory Owner(s): Montana State University--Administration Owner Address: 201 Main Hall / PO Box 172440 Bozeman, MT 59717-2440 Phone: 406-994-2001 Legal Location PM: Montana Township: 2S Range: 5E SW ¼ SW ¼ NW ¼ of Section: 13 Lot(s): Block(s): 25 Addition: Capital Hill Year of Addition: 1890 USGS Quad Name: Bozeman Year: 1987 Historic Use: Laboratories Current Use: Laboratories Construction Date: 1960 Estimated Actual Original Location Moved Date Moved: UTM Reference www.nris.mt.gov/topofinder2 NAD 27 or NAD 83(preferred ) Zone: 12 Easting: 495995 Northing: 5057122 National Register of Historic Places NRHP Listing Date: Historic District: Montana State University-Bozeman HD NRHP Eligible: Yes No Date of this document: July, 2013 Form Prepared by: Jessie Nunn / Consultant Address: 600 Meadowlark Lane, Livingston, MT 59047 Daytime Phone: 406-208-8727 MT SHPO USE ONLY Eligible for NRHP: yes X no Criteria: A B C D Date: October 2013 Evaluator: Kate Hampton Comments: Non-contributor in MSU-Bozeman Historic District – alterations. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 2 Architectural Description Property Name: Medical Science Research Building/Cooley Laboratory Site Number: 24GA1868 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION Architectural Style: Other: If Other, specify: International; Postmodern: Neo-Rennaisance (2012 Revovation) Property Type: Education Specific Property Type: Architect: Architectural Firm/City/State: Sigvald L. Berg / Helena, MT (original bulding); Architect Design Group / Kalispell, MT (2012 Renovation) Builder/Contractor: Company/City/State: Otto Eickhof / Minneapolis, MT (general); Frank Trunk / Bozeman, MT (plumbing & heating); Palmquist Electric / Helena, MT (electrical); Dick Anderson Construction / Bozeman, MT (2012 Renovation) Source of Information: University Records, 58-0002 Cooley Lab; MSU Facilities, Planning & Construction Website Setting & Location Cooley Laboratory (1960) was built approximately 20’ west of the 1923 Italian Renaissance Revival style Lewis Hall with its south elevation set back approximately 40’ from the older building’s façade. It is connected to Lewis Hall by a first-story annex and a third-story enclosed walkway. Another addition, Teitz Hall, was constructed behind (south of) Lewis Hall in 1985. Lewis Hall, which has always housed the Biology Department, was included in the 1917 George Carsley / Cass Gilbert Plan at its present location on the western end of the core campus’s east / west axis (Garfield Street, now Centennial Mall). Cooley Laboratory and Lewis Hall sit on the south side of Centennial Mall, across from Sherrick Hall (1973) and Reid Hall (1959) and west of Leon Johnson Hall (1973) and the center of campus, Montana Hall (1898). The oldest building on campus, Taylor Hall (1894) sits immediately north of Cooley Laboratory and the 1970s Creative Arts Complex (Clever, Howard and Haynes Halls) is located to the west across 11 th Avenue. Overall, the western portion of campus is characterized by Modern transitioning into the Late Modern architectural styles, the former of which Cooley Laboratory exemplified prior to a recent renovation completed in 2012. Summary Originally designed in the Modern style by Helena, Montana architect, Sigvald L. Berg, Cooley Laboratory was built in two phases with the upper stories completed in 1960. A recent (2012) renovation by the Architect Design Group, a Kalispell, Montana firm, however, transformed the building into a neo-Post -modern expression of the Italian Renaissance Revival style of its 1923 neighbor, Lewis Hall. An overhanging gable roof supported by large metal brackets built atop the original flat roof is the clearest stylistic connection to the earlier building. The new roof added a half-story for mechanical equipment to the four-story, reinforced concrete building, which also sports a full basement. Despite the renovation, Cooley Laboratories still retains much of its original form, including its 122’ x 50’ rectilinear footprint. The renovation also retained the building’s variegated brick cladding laid in a running bond, its pattern of slender brick pilasters and recessed bays filled with windows on the long south and north elevations, vertical columns lighting end stair towers on the south façade and its original annex to Lewis Hall, which contains Cooley Hall’s main entrance. All windows, typically paired aluminum units with large lights over small hopper units, were replaced during the renovation. Other significant changes include the addition of continuous sunscreens above south façade windows, the covering of the façade’s western window bay with prefinished corrugated metal siding and the infill of two basement windows on the west end of the building. South Façade The south façade of Cooley Laboratory consists of eleven recessed window bays between flush brick stair towers lit by a single column of aluminum-framed lights. Ten slender pilasters created by a stack course of header bricks flanked by single stacks of stretcher bricks define the bays, with the outside edges of the east and west bays lacking pilasters and being flush with the building’s main wall face. Originally the pilasters terminated at a soldier course with terra cotta coping that demarcated the building’s flat roofline; however, this has been covered with a few courses of darker brown brick in a running bond, which sit below the new gable roof structure. The metal roof displays a series of vents in each bay under the overhanging eave, which is supported by tube metal brackets that extend upward from the pilasters and maintain that spacing though the ends of the façade. Except for the outer bays, each bay contains new paired aluminum windows with a large light between smaller lights and a brick spandrel panel on all four stories. Window openings contain rowlock brick sills. The east bay has always lacked a first story window, while the west bay’s first story window has been in -filled with brick and its upper stories, along with much of the west stair tower, have been covered with a large panel of prefinished corrugated metal siding. Basement windows in the two westernmost bays have also been in -filled with brick. On the façade, each end stair tower is lit by a single column of aluminum-framed lights. The west light column extends the entire height of the building, while the east light column begins above the roof of the annex connecting Cooley Laboratory to Lewis Hall. These lights were also replaced during the 2012 renovation. New continuous metal sunshades cut across the bays and project outward above first, second and third story windows. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 3 Architectural Description Property Name: Medical Science Research Building/Cooley Laboratory Site Number: 24GA1868 West Elevation The west elevation contains a centered basement level entrance and windows in each upper story (2-4). A new flat-roofed metal canopy supported by perpendicular brick walls was added during the 2012 renovation and the original door replaced by two solid metal doors with slender rectangular lights above their handles. The asymmetrical canopy extends from the inner edge of its taller north wall over the entrance and approximately 10’ beyond its shorter south wall. Window openings contain new vertical four-light aluminum units, which closely match the originals. A large louvered vent is centered in the gable end of the new roof structure, the remainder of which is clad with brick in a running bond above two soldier courses. Brown brick was used for all new construction (the canopy and the gable end) on this elevation. A single metal door with a soldier course is found to the north of the main entrance in an opening that, according to the original architectural drawings, once held a louvered vent. North Elevation The rear elevation of Cooley Laboratory is similar to the façade, except it displays thirteen recessed window bays and its stair tower ends do not contain light columns. All bays contain paired aluminum windows on each story with the following exceptions (from west to east): the third bay lacks second and forth story windows, the fourth bay only has a first story window, the sixth bay lacks second and third story windows and the first story of the east bay (bay thirteen) has been converted into an entrance. According to original drawings there are also basement windows in bays two, three and four, but they may have been in -filled (this story is currently obscured by a fence and available drawings from the renovation are unclear). All windows in the west bay (bay one) were in-filled with brick during the 2012 renovation. As mentioned above, a first story entrance was added to the east bay in 2012. It contains a single metal door and is protected by a flat- roofed canopy that also extends over the first-story window to the east. The canopy is supported by large metal brackets. Like on the façade, a few courses of brown brick are found above the pilasters and below the new gabled roof. On this elevation, the space under the overhanging eve is covered in prefinished corrugated metal siding punctured in the center of the building by two louvered vents. A small tower, also clad in prefinished corrugated metal siding, was added to the north end of the east elevation in 2012. On the rear elevation, the new section is visible between the roof of Teitz Hall, attached to the northeast corner of Cooley Laboratory since 1985, and the overhanging eave. A tall louvered metal fence extends to the north between the west elevation and the rear elevation’s entrance. East Elevation Originally, the east elevation included the first-story annex and third-story enclosed walkway connecting Cooley Hall to Lewis Hall to the south and window bays in the center and to the east. Like the west elevation, the central windows bay had vertical four-light widows in the second, third and fourth stories, although here they were above the annex and not an entrance. Paired aluminum windows were located in the first, third and fourth stories of the east bay. During the 2012 renovation, all of these windows were filled and covered by a flat-roofed tower covered in pre-finished corrugated metal siding. The tower, which is slightly offset to the north, extends well above the roofline of the new gable roof. The remainder of the gable end, created by the gable roof added in 2012, is filled with brown brick in a running bond above two soldier courses of brown brick. Connections to Lewis Hall Cooley Laboratory’s one-story annex contains a shared entrance with Lewis Hall on its 30’ long south façade. The one- story annex extends 30’ east and projects approximately 10’ feet south off the east end of the main building. It is clad in variegated brick in a running bond with a soldier course and metal coping at the roofline. The window wall entrance and solid brick wall to the east are slightly recessed. The entrance consists of double aluminum-framed glass doors flanked by two wide, full-height sidelights. A solid brick wall is found between the glass entrance and the west elevation of Lewis Hall. There is a wide concrete apron bordered by short soldier course brick walls in front of the entrance. The annex extends approximately 35’ across the east and west elevations of Cooley Laboratory and Lewis Hall, respectively. Its 20’ wide north elevation originally contained a paired aluminum windows to the east and a single aluminum window to the west, but it was covered by Teitz Hall in 1985. The steel third-story enclosed walkway has five bays with a row of glass between blue metal panels. Both the annex and the walkway appear to have escaped alteration during the 2012 renovation. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 4 History of Property Property Name: Medical Science Research Building/Cooley Laboratory Site Number: 24GA1868 HISTORY OF PROPERTY Development of Montana State University Campus Montana State University was founded on February 16, 1893 (four years after statehood) as Montana’s land grant college under the Morrill Act of 1862. It has the distinction of being Montana’s first legislatively-created public university, with the University of Montana in Missoula being created the following day. Initially called the Agricultural College of the State of Montana, the new college was situated on a 200-acre site, part of which had been platted as the Capital Hill Addition in a (failed) bid for the State Capital. Bozeman citizens raised funds to purchase half the land, and Gallatin County donated the other half, which included the County poor farm. The first purpose-built building on campus was the Agricultural Experiment Station (Taylor Hall) constructed in 1894. Main Hall (or Montana Hall), the centerpiece of the campus, was completed in 1898. The construction of the Neo-classical Revival style Agricultural Building (Linfield Hall) in 1909 further illustrated the primary role of agriculture at Montana State. In 1913, the college was renamed the Montana State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts (MSC). The college anticipated a period of expansion after World War I, and contracted with Montana architect, George Carsley, and nationally-known landscape architect, Cass Gilbert, to develop a campus plan, now known as the “1917 George Carsley / Cass Gilbert Plan.” This plan, which exhibited a formal Beaux-Arts symmetry, was adopted by the Montana State Board of Education in 1920 and guided campus development until the outbreak of World War II. Its implementation was assisted by a $5 million bond to fund building development programs on all of Montana’s campuses. At MSC this resulted in the construction of several Italian Renaissance Revival buildings, including Roberts Hall, Traphagen Hall, Lewis Hall, Harrick Hall, Romney Gymnasium and the Heating Plant. MSC continued to grow and evolve during the Great Depression and World War II. This was spurred in part by the growth of the Extension Service under the New Deal’s Agricultural Adjustment Administration, an increase in unemployed students who enrolled in the years from 1932 to 1939 and expanded military training (including a flight school) during World War II. The 1935 “Quads,” a women’s dormitory financed through the Works Progress Administration, and the oldest portion of the Student Union, completed in 1940, were the era’s most significant additions to campus. Both were designed by Bozeman architect, Fred F. Willson, in the Tudor Revival style. Slight deviations from the 1917 George Carsley / Cass Gilbert Plan during the mid-1940s resulted from a desire for new buildings alongside a need to curb paving and heating costs by reducing the space between buildings. Along with colleges and universities across the nation, MSC expanded to accommodate students attending college under the “GI Bill” after World War II. The square footage of campus buildings doubled in the following decades. At this time, further departures were also made from the 1917 George Carsley / Cass Gilbert Plan as growth demanded expansion beyond its boundaries and within its open spaces. The Renne Library (1949) and the small Danforth Chapel (1952), MSC’s first Modern style building, were the era’s earliest additions to campus but several others followed during the 1950s and early 1960s. Four Mid-Century Modern dormitories were added to the northern end of campus and new academic buildings, including Reid Hall and the Math-Physics Building (AJM Johnson Hall), were erected in open spaces south of Garfield Street. Several older buildings also received significant Modern style additions, including Renne Library and Linfield and Lewis Halls. The result was a campus showcasing a dynamic blend of revivalist and modernist styles. The college was re-named Montana State University (MSU) in 1965, and the high-rise dormitories (Hedges and Roskie Halls) that would symbolize the modern era were completed by 1967. More buildings were added in the 1970s as MSU replaced all of its temporary frame buildings with permanent structures. Growth slowed during the 1980s through the beginning of the 21 st century in the core campus area, although a few new buildings (Visual Communications, the EPS Building and the Chemistry & Biochemistry Building) were added. Many older buildings have also undergone significant alterations in recent decades. Perhaps the greatest addition to campus during the contemporary period was Centennial Mall along what was once Garfield Street. In providing a strong east-west linear focus, the well-landscaped pedestrian mall was actually a return to the axial arrangement of 1917 George Carsley / Cass Gilbert Plan. Today, the MSU campus represents a blend of early formal planning, post-war expansion and contemporary buildings that respond to current needs. It offers an excellent example of the evolution of campus planning in Montana. (Burlingame, in passim; Painter, Montana Property Record Form for Langford Hall.) MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 5 History of Property Property Name: Medical Science Research Building/Cooley Laboratory Site Number: 24GA1868 The Medical Science Research Building (Cooley Laboratories) As enrollment at Montana State College continued to grow through the 1950s—increasing from 2,691 students in 1951 to 3,641 in 1957—so did its need for space. Researchers in particular were feeling crowded out as their laboratories, such as they were, continually being lost to classroom space. (Application for PHS Grant, 8/21/1957). Moreover, those laboratories that did exist focused primarily on the agricultural and animal sciences, and by the mid-1950s, the College, found itself, “with a group of younger staff members who have had training and experience in basic science research which they wish to continue.” (McBee to Smith, Kline & French Foundation, 4/22/1958). Finally, any laboratories related to medical research that did exist were scattered across the campus in various academic buildings, and one (the isotope laboratory) was housed in a temporary Quonset hut. Unfortunately, the State Legislature seemed unwilling to fully fund any campus construction by the late 1950s, and MSC had to look elsewhere for funding. To meet their needs for classroom space, the College turned to its students, using funds from the student building fee to construct a new general classroom and office building (Reid Hall) next to the Library in 1959. ( Exponent, 2/16/1968). However, MSC could hardly justify utilizing student fees to fund laboratory space used primarily for research generated from outside grants, and not teaching. Fortunately, federal funding for such research facilities was available through the Department of Health, Education and Welfare’s National Institutes of Health. MSC’s application for a $320,975 grant for a Medical Science Research Building was partially accepted in the amount of $130,000 in March of 1958, with the potential for further grant assistance should funding become available. (Porterfield to Renne, 3/18/1958). With the federal grant in-hand, MSC turned to the State Legislature for authorization to secure matching funds and to appoint an architect for the building, which was received on March 17, 1958. (Item 165-212, 3/17/1958). The governor selected Sigvald L. Berg, the Helena, Montana architect responsible for MSC’s recently-completed Lewis & Clark Hall (1955), to design the building according to the stipulations of a planning committee chaired by Dr. Richard McBee, Chairman of the Botany and Bacteriology Department (Renne to Berg, 4/10/1958). Plans called for a two-story building (with the option of additional floors later) that would create laboratories for medical-related research across a wide variety of fields, including Botany and Bacteriology, Zoology and Entomology, Biochemistry, Physiology, Psychology, Nutrition, Genetics, Virology and Isotope Studies along with rooms for instrument storage, media preparation, glass blowing and research animal rearing and disposal. (Architectural Drawings, 11/22/1958). A site just off the northwest corner of the 1923 Italian Renaissance Revival Lewis Hall (Biology Building) was selected in June, and bids for the general construction and heating and plumbing contracts were approved in late December, with the low bid for electrical work from Palmquist Electric tabled until March of the following year due to lack of funding. (McBee to Renne, 6/6/1958, Item 169-212, 3/8/1959). As construction proceeded, it became clear two stories would be insufficient, and MSC applied for an additional federal grant of $200,510 in August, with McBee noting: The building now being constructed has had a marked effect on the moral of the research inclined staff members. Even though the space is not yet available, several of them have started expanding their programs and activating projects which have not been worked on for several years...I am sure this surge of enthusiasm will continue and that we will soon need to expand even a four story building. (McBee to Schmehl, 8/8/1959). Construction bids were accepted for the additional two stories on November 2, 1959, three days before McBee received word via telegram from the National Institutes of Health that MSC would receive its federal grant. (McBee to Allen, 11/5/1959). In the meantime, construction of the first stories continued and McBee hoped researchers would be able to occupy the building by the beginning of 1960. After receiving the second National Institutes of Health grant, MSC faced a few additional challenges in completing the Medical Science Research Building. The architect, who previously irked MSC administrators over a surprise charge related to cabinets, returned his design fee to 8% percent for the building’s third story (the same as the first story), despite the additional stories being virtual identical to those already constructed. (Copping to Berg, 12/8/1959.) Then to add insult to injury, a steel strike in late 1959 delayed delivery of the already controversial cabinets and required MSC to ask the State Legislature for a sixty day extension to complete the first two stories. (Renne to Schmehl, 12/31/1959). However, by the summer of 1960 all that was left to discuss was the building’s name, which, in a letter to President Renne, Professor Louis Smith suggested should honor the late D. B. Swingle, former Dean of the College of Science. (Smith to Renne, 6/1/1960). Renne, who considered the building a wing of Lewis Hall, was less than enthusiastic, replying, “It seems to me we should refer to this as our Medical Science Wing, if we must, but I like to think of it as part of Lewis Hall and speak of the original building and the addition as one structure.” (Renne to Smith, 6/4/1960). Such debates, of course, did not curtail construction and the building (or wing) was completed later in 1960 at a final cost of just under $570,000. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 6 History of Property Property Name: Medical Science Research Building/Cooley Laboratory Site Number: 24GA1868 The Medical Science Research Building was later named Cooley Laboratory in honor of Robert A. Cooley, former head of the Department of Zoology and Entomology and entomologist for the U.S. Health Service’s Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Hamilton, Montana. After an extensive renovation in 2012, which, like the original building, was largely funded by the National Institutes of Health, Cooley Laboratory continues to serve is original function as research space. It is also home to the Department of Microbiology. (MSU Website, “Cooley Laboratory”). Sigvald L. Berg, Architect Sigvald L. Berg, who was of Norwegian heritage, spent most of his career in Helena, although he also gained architectural experience in Berkeley, California. Born in 1895, he graduated from Montana State College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Architectural Engineering in 1921. He worked throughout Montana on a wide range of industrial, commercial and institutional buildings during his career. One of his most well-known residential commissions was the home of Barclay Craighead in 1936, who served as the secretary to Senator Burton K. Wheeler and director of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) in Helena. During the Depression, Berg worked as the supervising architect for the Federal Housing Administration for the State of Montana and the local liaison for the state’s Depression-era “Better Homes” program. His California experience positioned him well after the 1935 Helena earthquake, when he worked on inspecting damaged buildings and re-writing the local building code for seismic safety. His interest in modern architecture is evidenced by his attendance at a three-day symposium in 1948 offered by Richard Neutra. He joined with Lorren O. Bradford in 1950, another graduate from Montana State University. Berg died in 1985. (Taken in its entirety from Painter, 47). The 1955 Lewis & Clark Residence Hall (now the Johnstone Center) is the only other building designed by Sigvald L. Berg on the Montana State University campus. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 7 Information Sources/Bibliography Property Name: Medical Science Research Building/Cooley Laboratory Site Number: 24GA1868 INFORMATION SOURCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY Berg, Sigvald L. “Medical Science Research Building,” Architectural Drawings, 22 November 1958 (University Records, 58-0002) and 16 October 1959 (University Records, 59-0003). Berg, Sigvald L., “Specifications for Construction of the Medical Science Research Building, Montana State College,” 22 November 1958. University Records, 58-0002. Building Master List. Physical Plant Records, Montana State University. Burlingame, Merrill. A History: Montana State University. Bozeman, Montana. Bozeman, MT: Office of Information Publication, February 1968. Copping, Bernard (MSU Business Manager). Letter to Sigvald L. Berg, 8 December 1959. University Records, 58-0002. Macek, Jim. “MSU Students’ Building Fee Will Help Finance More Academic Buildings,” Exponent , 16 February 1968. McBee, Richard H. Letter to Ernest M. Allen (Chief, Division of Research Grants, National Institutes of Health), 5 November 1959. University Records, 58-0002. McBee, Richard H. Letter to Francis L. Schmehl (Chief, Health Research Facilities Branch, National Institutes of Health), 8 August 1959. University Records, 58-0002. McBee, Richard H. Letter to Ronald R. Renne, 6 June 1958. University Records, 58-0002. McBee, Richard H. Letter to Smith, Kline and French Foundation, 22 April 1958. University Records, 58-0002. Montana State Board of Education. “Item 165-212, Financing and Construction of Medical Science Research Building, Montana State College,” 17 March 1958. University Records, 58-0002. Montana State Board of Education. “Item 169-212, Acceptance of Palmquist Electric Bid,” 8 March 1959. University Records, 58-0002. Montana State University, “Cooley Laboratory,” Website accessed at http://calendar.msu.montana.edu/locations.php?building=14&ref=map . Painter, Diane J. Montana Post-World War II Architectural Survey and Inventory: Historic Context and Survey Report , December 2010. Painter, Diane J. “Langford Hall, Montana Property Record Form,” July 18, 2010. Montana State Historic Preservation Office. Porterfield, John D (Acting Surgeon General). Letter to Ronald R. Renne, 18 March 1958. University Records, 58-0002. Renne, Ronald R (MSU President). Letter to Louis DS. Smith, 4 June 1960. University Records, 58-0002. Renne, Ronald R (MSU President). Letter to Francis L. Schmehl (Chief, Health Research Facilities Branch, National Institutes of Health), 31 December 1959. University Records, 58-0002. Renne, Ronald R (MSU President). “Application for Health Research Facilities Grant, National Institutes of Health), 21 August 1957. University Records, 58-0002. Renne, Ronald R (MSU President). Letter to Sigvald Berg, 10 April 1958. University Records, 58-0002. Smith, Louis DS. Letter to Ronald R. Renne (MSU President), 1 June 1960. University Records, 58-0002. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 8 Statement of Significance Property Name: Medical Science Research Building/Cooley Laboratory Site Number: 24GA1868 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NRHP Listing Date: NRHP Eligibility: Yes No Individually Contributing to Historic District Noncontributing to Historic District NRHP Criteria: A B C D Area of Significance: Period of Significance: STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Although the 1959-1960 construction date of Cooley Laboratory (the Medical Science Research Building) falls within the Montana State University Historic District’s period of historical significance (1893-1968) and it is closely associated with the rise of scientific research on campus, its 2012 renovation has rendered it ineligible due to a loss of integrity (see below). MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 9 Integrity Property Name: Medical Science Research Building/Cooley Laboratory Site Number: 24GA1868 INTEGRITY (location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, association) Cooley Laboratory no longer retains sufficient integrity of design, materials or workmanship to convey its historical and architectural significance. The recent Post -modern style renovation by the Architectural Design Group, completed in 2012, attempts to better compliment the adjacent 1923 Italian Renaissance Revival Lewis Hall by adding a gable roof with over- hanging eves, along with more contemporary features, such as panels of prefabricated metal siding and sunshades on the south façade. The building’s original windows were also replaced during the renovation, meaning all that remains of the original flat-roofed Modern-style building is its brick cladding. As such, the building no longer serves as a decent example of Modern architecture and no longer conveys its significant historical associations with the rise of biological research at MSU during the 1950s and 1960s. It does, however, retain its integrity of location and its association with Lewis Hall (the Biology Building). The 1985 Tietz Hall, constructed off the rear (north) elevation of Lewis Hall somewhat impacts the setting of both earlier buildings, however, its function as a centralized home for research animals is historically related. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 10 Photographs Property Name: Medical Science Research Building/Cooley Laboratory Site Number: 24GA1868 Cooley Laboratory South Elevation, Facing: N Montana State University Jessie Nunn, November 3, 2012 MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 11 Photographs Property Name: Medical Science Research Building/Cooley Laboratory Site Number: 24GA1868 Cooley Laboratory South Elevation with Connection to Lewis Hall, Facing: NE Montana State University Jessie Nunn, November 3, 2012 MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 12 Photographs Property Name: Medical Science Research Building/Cooley Laboratory Site Number: 24GA1868 Cooley Laboratory West Elevation, Facing: E Montana State University Jessie Nunn, November 3, 2012 MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 13 Photographs Property Name: Medical Science Research Building/Cooley Laboratory Site Number: 24GA1868 Cooley Laboratory North Elevation, Facing: SE Montana State University Jessie Nunn, November 3, 2012 MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 14 Photographs Property Name: Medical Science Research Building/Cooley Laboratory Site Number: 24GA1868 Cooley Laboratory, 2009 (Pre-Renovation) MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 15 Photographs Property Name: Medical Science Research Building/Cooley Laboratory Site Number: 24GA1868 Medical Science Research Building South, North, East and West Elevations, Sigvald L. Berg, November 1958. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 16 Photographs Property Name: Medical Science Research Building/Cooley Laboratory Site Number: 24GA1868 Two Additional Stories for Medical Science Research Building, North, South, West & East Elevations, Sigvald L. Berg, October 1959. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 17 Site Map Property Name: Medical Science Research Building/Cooley Laboratory Site Number: 24GA1868 MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 18 Topographic Map Property Name: Medical Science Research Building/Cooley Laboratory Site Number: 24GA1868