Normandy Apartments and Dairy Barns

The Normandy complex was built during the period from 1931-37. The buildings were designed by Cooper and Cooper, of Atlanta. Miss Berry had spires on the barns as well as on the chapels so that students would lift their eyes and hearts to God as they worked. Students provided construction labor and also made the bricks and roof tiles in the brick plant bought by Henry Ford and given to the schools. The Normandy Apartments, on a hill overlooking the dairy, house faculty and staff. The apartments originally housed primarily students working full time at the dairy or on the farms. The dairy barns house the college's registered Jersey and Holstein herd. Almost a hundred cows are milked twice daily. Although milk was once processed on campus, this practice has been discontinued. One building houses a milking parlor in which six cows can be milked simultaneously with an automated milking system. Another is the "maternity wing" where the calves are fed. The Berry dairy has been ranked by the Georgia Department of Agriculture as one of the top dairies in the state. A decision was made in 2001 to develop the Normandy complex, with assistance from the Chick-fil-A-sponsored WinShape Foundation, Inc., into a retreat facility. Dairy operations will be located at the Rollins Ruminant Research Center near the Ford Buildings.

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