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HERZER DAIRY SCIENCE BUILDING

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1970, Chris Risher Sr.

Dairy scientist F. H. Herzer developed Edam cheese making on the campus in the late 1930s, and the product’s popularity led to a campus industry that continues today. With the cheese plant behind it, the modernist Herzer building is a subtle assemblage of horizontal, bicolored brick masses raised from an irregular L-shaped plan. The central front-wall section is fully glazed, revealing a spartan lobby and a modernist ramp. A second ramp departs the lobby and beneath a steel canopy leads to the glass-fronted cheese shop. Ubiquitous plain pipe handrails and cantilevered steel canopies repeat the kind of clean lines that were a modernist preoccupation.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY (MISSISSIPPI AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE)
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Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "HERZER DAIRY SCIENCE BUILDING", [Starkville, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-CH17.8.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 204-204.

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