Livestock Building - Montana State Capitol Campus Historic District - Helena, MT
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N 46° 35.106 W 112° 01.035
12T E 422065 N 5159562
Built in 1918, the old Livestock Building, as opposed to the new Livestock Building, was the first building on the campus to house a government department outside the capitol building.
Waymark Code: WMWGB3
Location: Montana, United States
Date Posted: 09/01/2017
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Another building designed by Link and Haire, this Neo-classical Revival / Italian
Renaissance Revival was one of two early additions to the campus, the other, the Board of Health, being built around the same time, of around the same size and having the same general appearance and style, designed by the same architectural firm.
The building has since been replaced by a newer and vastly larger building, the Montana Highway Department Building, the original section of which was built in 1936 and an addition, the Scott Hart Building, built in 1958, now housing the Agriculture-Livestock Department. This building is now occupied by the Department of Administration, General Services Division.
LIVESTOCK BUILDING
Concerns about communicable diseases and unsanitary slaughterhouse conditions prompted the creation of the Livestock Sanitary Board in 1907. Originally housed in the new State Capitol, its duties quickly expanded and the need for laboratory and research facilities—inappropriate in the State Capitol—came to the forefront. Montana stockmen helped generate funding for a new building and Link and Haire, architects of the Capitol’s wings, drew the plans. Completed in 1918, it was the first building on the campus constructed for, and by, an individual state agency. Drawing upon the Neoclassical and Renaissance Revival styles, the restrained design harmonizes with that of the Capitol but does not replicate its grandeur. The original floorplan reflected the agency’s needs with space for research animals, cages, laboratories, and offices. The work was important and sometimes hazardous. In 1919, state bacteriologist Dr. Arthur McCray died of spotted fever after injecting guinea pigs with the bacteria in the laboratory here. The Animal Health Division of the Department of Livestock absorbed the Livestock Sanitary Board in 1971, but the Livestock Department continued to occupy the building until 1975.
From the NRHP plaque at the building
Name of Historic District (as listed on the NRHP): Montana State Capitol Campus Historic District
Link to nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com page with the Historic District: [Web Link]
NRHP Historic District Waymark (Optional): [Web Link]
Address: 1310 East Lockey Avenue
Helena, MT
59601
How did you determine the building to be a contributing structure?: Narrative found on the internet (Link provided below)
Optional link to narrative or database: [Web Link]
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