Located along SW 30th Street and north of the Veterinary Research Laboratory is Dryden Hall which was erected in 1951 and is a contributing building within the Oregon State University National Historic District as site #151.
The front of the building over the main entrance has the word 'POULTRY' etched in stone. I located a short writeup from the OSU website that highlights this building and reads:
LAST CHICKEN FEATHERS SWEPT OUT OF DRYDEN
JULY 10TH, 2013
Built in 1927 as the OSU Poultry Science Building, Dryden Hall provided the only classroom space for the fledgling College of Veterinary Medicine prior to the building of Magruder Hall. It currently houses the Department of Biomedical Sciences, but until recently, the building hadn’t changed much in 85 years.
This summer a massive remodeling of the interior of Dryden is taking place. On the first floor, the old classroom and two poultry labs that held incubators and a chicken-plucking machine are being replaced with a state-of-the-art bio-safety laboratory. Next door, the old concrete freezer and utility spaces will be replaced with a classroom. This is just one phase of a whole-building remodel that has also added new graduate student work areas and faculty offices on the second floor.
The building originally did not include a lady’s restroom so in the 1950s, a mensroom on the second floor was converted for women to use. Beth Chamblin, Assistant to the Department Head in Biomedical Sciences, is especially pleased that a women’s restroom will now be added to the first floor. “We’re all looking forward to it,” she says.
Dean Cyril Clarke has been setting aside carryover funds from the general budget for several years to help finance the Dryden upgrade. Oregon State University is funding the accessibility upgrades and new equipment will be paid for with funds from generous donors.