Huntington Hall
Founded by Bishop Frederick D. Huntington: 1874
Wooden Hospital Erected: 1875
Purchased by University: 1915
Materials: Wood, with brick and stone additions
Location: Marshall Street at University Avenue
Notes:
The House of the Good Shepherd was founded in 1873 by Bishop Huntington and the Episcopal Dioceses of Central New York for the temporary nursing and care of the needy. In 1875 a three-story wooden hospital was built on a lot on Marshall Street between University Avenue and Chestnut Street at a cost of approximately $20,000. The institution continued to expand during the next thirty years and brick and stone additions were made to the original building. Eventually the Hospital of the Good Shepherd began to have financial difficulties and in 1911 approached Syracuse University about the possibility of the University assuming control and ownership of the hospital. Finally in 1915 the rights and privileges of the hospital as well as the real and personal property were transferred to Syracuse University. The University assumed the hospital's debts which amounted to approximately $58,000, including the mortgage, and agreed to maintain and operate the hospital while carrying out the objectives for which it had been organized. A special act of State legislature was necessary to effect the transfer.
In 1950 when the Medical College was transferred to the State of New York, the State agreed to pay the deficit on the University Hospital of the Good Shepherd up to $100,000; Syracuse University agreed to operate the hospital for the State on a contract basis.
In 1964 the building was re-named Huntington Hall after the late Rt. Rev. Frederick D. Huntington, former Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Central, New York and the founder of the University Hospital of the Good Shepherd.
In July 1966 patients and staff moved into the new State University Upstate Medical Center Hospital and in August the University mail department became the first tenants in the former hospital.
