124 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



SYNOPSIS OF BOARD AND COMMITTEE MEETINGS, 



1904. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING. 



January 13, 1904. 



Committee met at call of President Morrow, with all members 

 present. 



The president stated that the object of the meeting was to 

 consider the instructions of* the board relative to asking the 

 Thirtieth General Assembly for an appropriation for certain 

 improvements upon the State Fair grounds. 



After discussing the question pro and con it was agreed to 

 meet as previously arranged, on the 26th of January, for the 

 purpose of receiving sketches of the proposed Agricultural, 

 Horticultural and Dairy building, from the architects invited 

 to prepare same. 



The committee, by correspondence, instructed the secretary 

 to send out the following letter to the several architects selected : 



The State Board of Agriculture contemplates erecting a building upon 

 the State Fair Grounds at Des Moines, Iowa, during the year 1904, and 

 respectfully invites you as architects, to make a sketch of the floor plan, 

 front elevation and section of such building, which would be suitable and 

 large enough t > hold the exhibits in the agricultural, horticultural and dairy 

 departments. 



The building is to be approximately 150x250 feet, or 35,000 to 37,000 

 square feet of floor space, to be divided as follows: For agriculture, 

 21,000 square feet; horticulture, 7,500 square feet, and dairy, 7,500 square 

 feet. 



A good, substantial, plain building is desired; not too plain, but without 

 costly decorations. The general appearance to be in its proportions rather 

 than decorations. 



Material: Stone, brick, iron and wood. Scale: % inch to the foot. 

 The main front will face northwest, and will be visible from all sides. The 

 building will be erected on a si ping site, on which the southwest corner 

 will be fully twelve feet below the northeast corner, and the northwest 

 corner about eight feet below the northeast corner. 



