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Agriculture Center Arena
 
Agriculture Center Arena
2500 Avenue M
Map | ID#: 0086
Timeline:
1969 Constructed
c.1995-96 Last used for student living
Namesake:
None
 
Architect:
Unknown
 
Contractor(s):
Unknown
The Agriculture Center Arena is one of the buildings located at the Agriculture Center along northbound Interstate 45.

The building contains a soils laboratory, an animal science laboratory, and an indoor arena for animal handling. In decades past, many students that worked at the center by processing meat, mixing feed, or operating the college dairy also lived on site. The living quarters contained within this building were last used c.1995-96.

The structure is identified as the Animal Husbandry Building on many campus maps.

Photographs
Agriculture Center Arena Due to its size, the Indoor Arena seems to serve as an unofficial flagship building of the Agriculture Center, where a dedication plaque can be found just inside the southern entrance. The plaque is on the wall next to a pay phone covered with dirt and cobwebs and appears to have been last used shortly before the plaque was installed.
Agriculture Center Arena Above the southern entrance of the building are stairs leading to a second story and the area once used as living quarters.
Agriculture Center Arena It's a horse. In the arena.
 

Sources:
Interview with Bobby Lane (2009)
 
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