Agriculture Engineering Building - University of Maine, Orono, Maine B23

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Agriculture Engineering Building - University of Maine, Orono, Maine B23

Image of the Agriculture Engineering Building, a brick building on a flat green framed by trees. The structure combines industrial architecture with academic grace, enhanced by the vines allowed to climb up ts brick walls. Agriculture Engineering reflects the post WWII trend toward industrializing and large-scale farming, and would have been recently added to the University's program in the late 1940s. The Agricultural Engineering building is now called Norman Smith Hall which now houses the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions (2021):

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LB2010.9.120690
City/Town:
Orono 
State/Province:
Maine