Agriculture ↔ Library
Agriculture ↔ Library seen on the far left, running north-to-south in the 1986 site plans for the construction of the Lab Sciences West (LSW) building. Image cropped and emphasis added for effect: yellow highlight indicates tunnels assumed to still remain; red highlight indicates portion which was demolished and sealed. This is the best record of this section of tunnel we have found.
(Lab Sciences West, 1986)
(Lab Sciences West, 1986)
This portion of the tunnel system follows the east side of the north-south sidewalk extending from the Agriculture building to the northeast corner of the library (Campus Utilities, 2018). According to Paul Rice (n.d.), this is a rectangular shaft. The southern terminus of this section is known as the Grated Chamber[1], which is believed by Rice to have once been a boiler room underneath the old Engineering Building where the Agriculture building stands today. Rice recounts that the room’s floor slopes towards a drain in the southwest corner of the room, possibly draining to the ditch paralleling the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad tracks to the south of campus. He also describes a stairwell on the south wall of this room which leads to a sealed, possibly welded-shut, door; this door is likely hidden behind new construction on the interior side at the original access point (Rice, n.d.).
From this tunnel once extended an additional section which existed below Lab Sciences East and West, continuing to Caraway Road; parts of this portion were demolished and sealed during the construction of Lab Sciences West (Lab Sciences West, 1986) (see Lab Sciences East ↔ Caraway Road).
[1] Earliest found mention of this name was by ASU alumnus Paul Rice; droog (2010) also uses this name
From this tunnel once extended an additional section which existed below Lab Sciences East and West, continuing to Caraway Road; parts of this portion were demolished and sealed during the construction of Lab Sciences West (Lab Sciences West, 1986) (see Lab Sciences East ↔ Caraway Road).
[1] Earliest found mention of this name was by ASU alumnus Paul Rice; droog (2010) also uses this name