In the background are the farm foreman’s residence on the left and the 2 ½-storey boarding house on the right. The buildings were located immediately east of the south end of Rutherford Rink.
Though the College of Agriculture did not open until the fall of 1912, three faculty members had been hired in 1909 and more than 600 of the University Farm’s acres were sown in various crops by spring 1910.
Many of the original farm staff lived on campus and these houses were among the first buildings on campus. They were demolished to make way for the eastern portion of Campus Drive in June 1975.