- Old Main (Minot State University
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Old Main, North Dakota School of Forestry
Location: Alexander St. (N of terminus with 2nd St.), Bottineau, North Dakota Coordinates: 48°50′3″N 100°26′25″W / 48.83417°N 100.44028°WCoordinates: 48°50′3″N 100°26′25″W / 48.83417°N 100.44028°W Area: less than one acre Built: 1907 Architect: Shannon, Joseph A.; White, Edmund Architectural style: Romanesque Governing body: State NRHP Reference#: 06000532[1] Added to NRHP: September 01, 2006 Old Main, constructed in 1907-1908, is a historic building at Minot State University-Bottineau, a two-year college in Bottineau, North Dakota. The building previously housed the North Dakota School of Forestry. The building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
History
In 1889, the North Dakota legislature desired to build a forestry school. Bottineau was chosen as the location in 1894. The state legislative assembly raised $25,000 in 1907, then commissioned architect Joseph Shannon for the building, completed in 1908. The school was constructed in the Romanesque Revival style. The school's campus expanded over the years, but the original building kept its nickname of Old Main.[2]
Current status
A new addition has been constructed at Minot State University-Bottineau and Old Main will be left vacant. People at the college are looking at ways to maintain the building and put it to a new use. It will be left vacant and minimally heated after faculty have moved into the new addition in August 2007. The building is considered endangered by Preservation North Dakota.[3]
Notes
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ OLD MAIN BUILDING AT MINOT STATE UNIVERSITY-BOTTINEAU LISTED IN NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES, State Historical Society of North Dakota. September 15, 2006. Retrieved April 20, 2007.
- ^ 2004 Most Endangered Properties
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