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HomeMy WebLinkAboutEPS Building (24GA1869) 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 S. 6 th Ave between Hayes & Grant St. Historic Address (if applicable): NA City/Town: Bozeman Site Number: 24GA1869 (An historic district number may also apply.) County: Gallatin Historic Name: NA Original Owner(s): Montana State University Current Ownership Private Public Current Property Name: Engineering & Physical Science (EPS) Building 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 NW ¼ SE ¼ NE ¼ of Section: 13 Lot(s): Block(s): 45 Addition: Capital Hill Year of Addition: 1890 USGS Quad Name: Bozeman Year: 1987 Historic Use: Classrooms, Offices, Laboratories Current Use: Same Construction Date: 1997 Estimated Actual Original Location Moved Date Moved: UTM Reference www.nris.mt.gov/topofinder2 NAD 27 or NAD 83(preferred ) Zone: 12 Easting: 496415 Northing: 5057004 National Register of Historic Places NRHP Listing Date: Historic District: Montana State University-Bozeman HD NRHP Eligible: Yes No Date of this document: July 1, 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 – age. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 2 Architectural Description Property Name: Engineering & Physical Sciences Building (EPS) Building Site Number: 24GA1869 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION Architectural Style: Other: If Other, specify: Property Type: Education Specific Property Type: Architect: Architectural Firm/City/State: CTA / Billings, MT Builder/Contractor: Company/City/State: Sletten Construction (general) / Great Falls, MT Source of Information: Setting & Location The 1997 Engineering & Physical Sciences Building (EPS) Building is located near the southeast corner of MSU’s core campus. It replaced the 1922 Engineering Shops (Ryon Laboratories), which, along with the Italian Renaissance Revival Engineering Hall (Roberts Hall), were part of the 1917 George Carsley / Cass Gilbert Campus Plan. Cobleigh Hall, a six- story reinforced concrete building clad in brick, was constructed between Engineering Hall and the Engineering Shops in 1970. Annexes connected Cobleigh Hall to the older buildings on its north and south elevations. When the EPS Building was constructed in 1997 a new annex was designed to connect it to Cobleigh Hall to the north. More broadly, the EPS Building sits at the northwest corner of 6 th Avenue and Grant Street, which is the southwest corner of the academic portion of campus. Service buildings, including the 1922 Italian Renaissance Revival Heating Plant and the 1953 Plew Building, and athletic facilities are located across Grant Street to the south/southeast and southwest, respectively. Single family and Greek housing is found to the east across 6 th Avenue. Within the core campus, the Strand Student Union and Swingle Health Services are located west of the Roberts Hall / Cobleigh Hall / EPS Building Complex, with Roberts Hall serving as the east anchor campus’s east / west axis (now Centennial Mall). Summary Completed in 1997, the EPS Building is a massive (just over 150,000 square foot), multi-story, reinforced concrete and steel structure, designed by the Billings, Montana architectural firm, CTA. It consists of a large (approximately 275’ x 150’) three story section with a curvilinear southwest façade to the west and a smaller “L”-shaped “shops wing” to the east. The shops section ranges between one and three stories (with a full basement) and wraps around the southeast corner of the larger section. It is 160’ long on its east elevation, 105’ long on its south elevation and projects approximately 44’ south of the larger section and 68’ to the east. On the southwest façade, a series of four one-story projections fan out toward the north from the main entrance, with each projecting farther west until the final one pinches back to the main building face. The three southern projections act as a staggered, rectangular “arcade” to the entrance, while the northern one-story projection is an extension of the building’s first floor. A three-story, 24’ x 56’ annex on the north façade connects the EPS building to the six-story Cobleigh Hall. Aluminum windows on the large building section and annex are typically paired two-over-one light units on the second and third stories and ribbons of twelve-over-six light units on the first story, while the smaller shops wing has horizontally-arranged two-light widows. Windows frames are finished in a sandstone color. All building sections have a flat built-up roof. The building is clad in copper face brick laid in a running bond with sandstone-colored brick stringcourses and panels. In general, stringcourses are three courses wide and are found above first story windows, below second story windows, above third story windows and just below the building’s cornice. The lower stringcourse falls just above the columns of the entrance arcade. A rowlock course between stretcher courses of decorative white brick creates a “cornice” at the roofline of each building section. The same white brick is used to create small squares that decorate the building at the upper outside corners of first and third-story window bays and the inner corners of windows between the second and third stories. Decorative squares are also found in the space above first-story columns or pilasters. The use of such ornamentation links the building to the Italian Renaissance Revival style used for many of MSU’s early 20 th century buildings, including the nearby Roberts Hall (Engineering Hall). Southwest Entrance The façade includes the curved main entrance bay and the curved south and linear west façades of the building’s larger section. Positioned at the southwest “corner” of the building, the approximately 40’ wide entrance bay is recessed about 10’ from the main building face with the second and third stories being stepped further back. The window wall entrance contains two sets of double aluminum-framed glass doors separated by wide glass sidelights and flanked by more slender sidelights. A transom with individual lights above each door and sidelight completes the window wall entrance. Both the second and third stories of the entrance bay have a continuous ribbon of ten lights across their entire length. The one- story “arcade” in front of the entrance is divided into three segments with each projecting farther from the building from south to north: the smallest section begins approximately 15’ south of the entrance bay, is about 20’ wide and projects 12’ MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 3 Architectural Description Property Name: Engineering & Physical Sciences Building (EPS) Building Site Number: 24GA1869 from the building face; the 35’ wide central section is centered on the entrance and projects approximately 30’ from the building face; the 35’ wide northern section sits against the south end of the west façade’s first story extension and projects approximately 35’ from the building face. The central section of the façade has a roof with an arched skylight and acts as a canopy, while the side sections are not covered. Wide, squared columns support each arcade section, with the central section having four columns to the south and five to the north. Each column sits on a slim concrete base and has vertical column of light colored tiles in its center. South Façade The south façade of the EPS building continues the curve of the southwest entrance bay. It contains six bays west of the junction with the building’s smaller rectilinear segment. Pilasters with a minimal profile define the bays between the grade- level concrete foundation and top of the first story and between the bottom of the second story windows and top of the third story widows. Spandrel panels are slightly recessed. The second and third story of each bay contains paired four- over-two aluminum windows separated by a panel of sandstone-colored brick. A recessed entrance with a metal door and two-light transom is centered in the first story of the fourth bay from the east, while the remaining first-story bays contain a twelve-over-six light window above a panel of sandstone-colored brick. Beyond its junction with the shops wing, the south façade of the main building has a slim recessed section followed by a solid brick wall. The one-to-two-story south and west elevations of the EPS Building’s smaller “L”-shaped shops wing are located at the east end of the south façade. Decorative features, such as the sandstone-colored stringcourses and white squares continue through this section, although they are used somewhat differently due to a change in fenestration patterns. The west-facing wall has a recessed entrance with a single metal door and two-light transom on its northern end. The remainder of the wall is solid brick broken only by the stringcourses and white brick cornice. A series of three slightly recessed sandstone-colored brick panels between low-profile pilasters are located just below the first-story stringcourse in the western three-fourths of the shop wing’s south elevation. The building transitions to two stories at the end of this series, with the elevation’s east bay containing sandstone-colored brick panels below a large arched window opening filled with five columns of lights divided into three rows. The slender middle row of lights is even with the building’s second lowest stringcourse. A third stringcourse, which is even with the top of the façade’s second story windows and continues around to the south elevation, begins at the west end of this bay. The setback south-facing wall of the three-story portion of shop’s wing, which contains two large louvered vents, is visible above its shorter south elevation. The building’s second highest string course (even with the top of the façade’s third story windows) continues again on this wall. West Façade The west façade continues on a strait north-south line from the southwest entrance. Its second and third stories have eight window bays above the irregular shaped first-story projection. This projection begins at the north end of the entrance and extends approximately 45’ on a northwest line before curving back about 56’ north and 20’ east. From there it continues another 40’ straight north before turning east for approximately 15’ to meet the main building face. The projections lacks fenestration, but the building’s lowest stringcourse (even with the top of the first story windows) continues along all its elevations and decorative white squares are arranged as if there were windows. Two bays are found in the first story of the main building beyond the projection, with the northernmost containing a ribbon of six two- over-one light windows. On the second and third stories, each of the eight bays contains paired four-over-two light windows. In all but the outer bays, the window pairs are separated by panels of sandstone-colored brick. East (Rear) Elevation The east elevation includes the 160’ long east wall of the shops wing to the south and the approximately 155’ long exposed east wall of the three-story main building section. The former is two stories and contains eight bays. Each second story bay contains two two-light widows separated by sandstone-colored brick panels. From north to south, the first story bays contain (under a stringcourse): a sandstone-colored brick panel, a sandstone-colored brick panel with two solid metal doors, a rolling overhead garage door, a sandstone-colored brick panel with a single metal door with rectangular light, two sandstone-colored brick panels and two rolling overhead garage doors. Two metal doors with rectangular lights are found in the pilaster separating the first and second bays from the south, which is slightly wider than the other pilasters. No decorative white square appear at the windows on this wall, however, one square occurs above each first story pilaster. The setback third-story portion of the shops wing is visible here. It lacks fenestration, but does have a white brick cornice and the building’s third highest stringcourse (even with the top of the façade’s third story windows). The north-facing wall of shops wing contains two bays: a slightly projecting two-story bay to the east and a three-story west bay. With its large arched window and overhead garage door, the two-story bay is identical to the east bay of this building section’s south elevation. The unfenestrated west bay is the north end of this building section’s inner three-story portion. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 4 Architectural Description Property Name: Engineering & Physical Sciences Building (EPS) Building Site Number: 24GA1869 A one-story, square, flat-roofed canopy at the junction of the north wall of the shops and east wall of the main building protects entrances on both elevations. The north elevation entrance displays double metal doors with slender rectangular lights above the handle and the east elevation entrance has double solid metal doors. The three-story east elevation of the main building contains eight bays. Second and third stories bays contain two pairs of two-over-one windows, which are separated by sandstone-colored brick panels in all but the two outer bays. From north to south, first story bays are: an empty bay, a rolling overhead garage door, five sandstone-colored brick panels and the previously-described entrance. Decorative patterns, including all stringcourses and white corner squares, mimic those found on the façade. North Elevation and Annex to Cobleigh Hall The three-story annex to the southwest corner Cobleigh Hall is offset slightly to the east on the EPS Building’s north elevation. Its roofline is slightly lower than the main building (even with the three-story portion of the shops wing) and lacks the building’s highest stringcourse. Both elevations of the annex (east and west) have two bays with paired two- over-one widows on the second and third stories and a double metal door entrance on the south end of their first story. West of the annex, the north elevation has three bays in the second and third stories, with the outer (west) bay containing two pairs of two-over-one windows and the inner bays containing sandstone-colored brick panels. The first story has no fenestration. To the east of the annex, the north elevation has two bays. The second and third stories of the inner bay contain sandstone-colored brick panels, while the outer bay and first story lack fenestration. Decorative patterns established on the façade, including all stringcourses and white corners squares, are continued on this elevation. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 5 History of Property Property Name: Engineering & Physical Sciences Building (EPS) Building Site Number: 24GA1869 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 1907 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 6 History of Property Property Name: Engineering & Physical Sciences Building (EPS) Building Site Number: 24GA1869 The Engineering & Physical Sciences Building (EPS Building) In February of 1982, thirty-seven participants gathered at Montana State University for a three-day Engineering/Sciences Charrette to address the “seriously obsolete and inadequate” facilities housing the College of Engineering (Roberts Hall, Cobleigh Hall and Ryon Labs), the Physics Department (A.J.M. Johnson Hall), the Mathematics Department (Wilson Hall) and the Chemistry Department (Gaines Hall). (Engineering Science Charette). Participants included University faculty and staff, industry leaders, a handful of students and one “public spirited citizen” from Hamilton, Montana. Out of the charrette came the desire for a new building to house new laboratories, classrooms and offices for the School of Engineering and the various sciences. By 1984 a building program was completed and CTA, a Billings, Montana architectural firm, was retained to create predesign documents. (Rose to Lannan, 6/18/1991). As usual, State authorization and funding was slow to follow. It would be another seven years before the Montana State Legislature authorized the construction of a $22,235,000 Engineering & Physical Sciences Building (EPS Building). The bulk of the funding came in the form of bonds through Montana’s Long Range Building Program, but the State would not advertise for bids until the University raised and additional $3.4 million. (Item 79-201-R0693). Finally, in February of 1994, Sletten construction of Great Falls, Montana was awarded the $14.1 million general contract and a groundbreaking was scheduled at the end of April. (MSU News Release, 2/17/1994). As MSU worked to raise funds for their new EPS Building between 1991 and 1993, they continued the planning process. CTA continued on as building’s architect, although they were tasked with designing a vastly different building than the one proposed in 1984. (Rose to Lannan, 1/18/1991). The EPS Planning Committee was established in June of 1991, with a charge to, “review the original [1984] building and renovation program and recommend necessary modifications that are consistent with the legislative intent,” along with selecting a site and, “providing overall programmatic and conceptual guidance to the architectural firm.” (The Engineering/Physical Science Planning Committee). By the end of October, the committee drafted the project’s mission statement and objectives, which included providing state-of-the-art facilities and supporting infrastructure for the Engineering and Physical Sciences and fostering creativity and multi-disciplinary interaction. (Mission Statement, 10/30/1991). Two months later, the committee elected to construct the new EPS Building to the south of Cobleigh Hall, requiring the demolition of the 1922 Ryon Laboratories (Engineering Shops). (Bancroft to Malone, 12/19/1991). Other sites considered included immediately east of Romney Gymnasium, across Centennial Mall from Roberts Hall, on the former Gatton Field and behind the Heating Plant, but in the end the $3.5 million needed to renovate Ryon Labs (85% of its replacement cost) simply could not beat out the convenience of housing the School of Engineering in one complex (EPS Planning Committee Minutes, 12/10/1991). In addition to the demolition of Ryon Labs and construction of the EPS Building, the project included the renovation of A.J.M. Johnson Hall, Roberts Hall, Cobleigh Hall, Gaines Hall and sections of the University’s Utility Tunnel. (Engineering/Physical Sciences Project). By 1995 the EPS Planning Committee gave way to the EPS Building Users Committee, as the University anticipated occupying the building by in the spring of 1996. Construction of the massive building, however, did not go exactly to plan. Even prior to signing the contract, Sletten Construction pushed their completion date back by six months, with the Shops Wing (Area D) to be finished in June 1995 and the entire building finished in April 1996. But when a wet fall slowed backfilling, Sletten fell even farther behind, forcing another four-month extension for completion. On a more positive note, Sletten finished the Shops Wing on time, allowing MSU to occupy at least one portion of the building. Still, construction on the main portion of the building lagged and by April of 1996, Sletten asked for yet another deadline extension in addition to further compensation. In September, CTA issued a “Certificate of Substantial Completion” for portions of the building, but the project remained unfinished in April of 1997 as the University and Sletten Construction entered mediation to settle the former’s losses, now totaling $1.2 million. (Sletten Construction Claim, 4/28/1997). Construction was finally completed in early summer of 1997, but roof problems plagued the building over the next year until a second layer of membrane was added over the original materials. Despite its troubled construction, the EPS Building has served MSU well since its completion in 1997. It currently houses the College of Engineering, the Physics Department, the Computer Science Department and the Burns Technology Center. (MSU, “EPS Building”). CTA (Cushing, Terrell and Associates) The Billings firm of Cushing & Terrell, also known as Cushing, Terrell and Associates, is now called CTA. Cushing & Terrell was founded in 1938, when partners Ralph Cushing and Everett Terrell joined forces. Ralph Henry Cushing was born in Dillon, Montana on January 16, 1903. He was educated at Montana State College, from which he received a MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 7 History of Property Property Name: Engineering & Physical Sciences Building (EPS) Building Site Number: 24GA1869 Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture in 1927. He went on to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Architectural Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1932. He worked for others, apprenticing in architecture and engineering, before establishing the firm of Cushing, Terrell and Associates in 1938. Cushing’s partner Edwin O. Terrell was born in Billings, Montana on February 11, 1908. He was educated at the University of Washington, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture in 1931. His first listed architectural employment was with Cushing, Terrell and Associates. Cushing, Terrell and Associates had an established reputation in Montana at mid-century, based on extensive work in the areas of education (schools and university buildings) and healthcare (hospitals and related structures). They also designed numerous buildings for state and local governments. Additional building types undertaken by the firm included commercial structures and resort developments. When faced with a downturn in the education market in 1966, the firm re- organized and expanded. Today, CTA is a multi-disciplinary firm with sixteen offices throughout Montana and six other western states. Their office, constructed in 1958, was located across N. 27th Street from the Eastern Montana College (now Montana State University—Billings) campus, just south of the Physical Education Building. Notable buildings designed by the firm include several buildings on the Montana State University—Billings campus; buildings for the Midland Empire Fairgrounds in Billings; Highland Elementary School and Shrine Auditorium in Billings; the hospital in Red Lodge; the Dude Rancher Lodge in Billings; the Veteran’s Hospital in Miles City; Deaconess Hospital in Billings; and the Montana Crippled Children’s Association Rehabilitation Center in Missoula; among many others. (Taken in its entirety from Painter, 49). In addition to the EPS Building, Cushing, Terrell and Associates also designed a number of other buildings on the Montana State University campus, including Hannon Hall (1955), Hapner Hall (1959), Reid Hall (1959), Leon Johnson Hall (1973), Wilson Hall (1974) and the Visual Communications Building (1983). More recently, CTA has undertaken the renovation of campus buildings including the Brick Breeden Field House (1998) and Renne Library (2003). MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 8 Information Sources/Bibliography Property Name: Engineering & Physical Sciences Building (EPS) Building Site Number: 24GA1869 INFORMATION SOURCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY Bancroft, Jerry (Chairman, EPS Planning Committee). Letter to Michael Malone, 19 December 1991. University Records, 91-0025. Building Master List. Physical Plant Records, Montana State University. Building Envelope Technology & Research, “Roof Moisture Survey, Montana State University, Engineering/Physical Sciences Building,” 7 September 2000. University Records, 91-0025. Burlingame, Merrill. A History: Montana State University. Bozeman, Montana. Bozeman, MT: Office of Information Publication, February 1968. “Chronology of Sletten Construction Claim,” 28 April 1997. University Records, 91-0025. CTA, “Project Manual, Engineering Physical Sciences Building,” 23 December 1993. University Records, 91-0025. “Engineering/Physical Science Project, Montana State University,” University Records, 91-0025. “Engineering/Science Charrette, Montana State University, February 25-28, 1982.” University Records, 91-0025. EPS Planning Committee, “Engineering/Physical Sciences Building Mission Statement,” 30 October 1991. University Records, 91-0025. EPS Planning Committee, “Minutes,” 10-13 December 1991. University Records, 91-0025. Montana Board of Regents, “Item 79-201-R0693, Ratification of Agreement…Concerning the Construction of the Engineering Physical Sciences Building,” 7 June 1993. University Records, 91-0025. MSU, “EPS Building,” Website accessed online at http://calendar.msu.montana.edu/locations.php?building=3&ref=map . MSU Communication Services, “Sletten Construction Wins MSU Project,” 17 February 1994. University Records, 91- 0025. 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. Rose, William S (Director, MSU Facilities Services). Letter to Bill Lannan, 18 June 1991. University Records, 91-0025. Rose, William S (Director, MSU Facilities Services). Letter to Dave Gibson, 13 May 1991. University Records, 91-0025. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 9 Statement of Significance Property Name: Engineering & Physical Sciences Building (EPS) Building Site Number: 24GA1869 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 The Engineering & Physical Science Building, completed in 1997, does not currently contribute to the Montana State University-Bozeman Historic District due to age. Its contributing status, however, should be reassessed during future amendments and expansions to the historic district. The building is associated with the continued prominence of Engineering at MSU and is indicative of the growing important of the Physical Sciences after World War II. Together with the adjacent 1922 Roberts Hall (Engineering Building) and the 1970 Cobleigh Hall, the EPS Building provides a timeline of architectural styles and building forms thought appropriate for Engineering educational facilities at MSU. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 10 Integrity Property Name: Engineering & Physical Sciences Building (EPS) Building Site Number: 24GA1869 INTEGRITY (location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, association) Due to its recent age, the EPS Building retains excellent integrity of design, workmanship and materials. It also retains its original setting and location, and, therefore, its association with the 1922 Roberts Hall (Engineering Hall) and 1970 Cobleigh Hall (Engineering Sciences Building). Should it retain its current level of integrity, the EPS Building could contribute to the historical and architectural significance of MSU in 2047. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 11 Photographs Property Name: Engineering & Physical Sciences Building (EPS) Building Site Number: 24GA1869 EPS Building Southwest Façade, Facing: NE Montana State University Jessie Nunn, January 5, 2013 MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 12 Photographs Property Name: Engineering & Physical Sciences Building (EPS) Building Site Number: 24GA1869 EPS Building Southwest Entrance and West Elevation, Facing: NE Montana State University Jessie Nunn, January 5, 2013 MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 13 Photographs Property Name: Engineering & Physical Sciences Building (EPS) Building Site Number: 24GA1869 EPS Building North End of West Elevation with Connection to Cobleigh Hall, Facing: SE Montana State University Jessie Nunn, January 4, 2013 MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 14 Photographs Property Name: Engineering & Physical Sciences Building (EPS) Building Site Number: 24GA1869 EPS Building South Elevation, Facing: NE Montana State University Jessie Nunn, January 5, 2013 MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 15 Photographs Property Name: Engineering & Physical Sciences Building (EPS) Building Site Number: 24GA1869 EPS Building East Elevation, Facing: NW Montana State University Jessie Nunn, January 5, 2013 MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 16 Photographs Property Name: Engineering & Physical Sciences Building (EPS) Building Site Number: 24GA1869 EPS Building North End of Projecting East Elevation and Recessed East Elevation, Facing: SW Montana State University Jessie Nunn, January 5, 2013 MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 17 Photographs Property Name: Engineering & Physical Sciences Building (EPS) Building Site Number: 24GA1869 EPS Building North End of Recessed East Elevation with Recessed Connection to Cobleigh Hall, Facing: W Montana State University Jessie Nunn, January 5, 2013 MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 18 Site Map Property Name: Engineering & Physical Sciences Building (EPS) Building Site Number: 24GA1869 MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 19 Topographic Map Property Name: Engineering & Physical Sciences Building (EPS) Building Site Number: 24GA1869