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Built: 1905 Designed for the study of market gardening, floricultre, greenhouse management, and landsape gardening. the flattish roof broadly overhanging the walls and a definitee symmetry without reference to classical architecture mark the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright's "Prairie Style". Marshall P. Wilder was a founder of the New England Horticulutural Society (1829), helped establish the Massachusetts Academy of Agriculutre (1845), and as president of the Norfolk Agricultural Society became enthusiastic about agricultural education. Wilder was first to suggest forming a Massachusetts Agricultural College and in 1852 began the State Board of Agriculture. |
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