Lyman C. Smith Hall
Plans Announced: June 12, 1900
Groundbreaking: November 1, 1900
Construction Began: Spring 1901
Occupied: Winter 1902
Architect: Gaggin and Gaggin
Materials: Ohio sandstone
Notes:
Funds for the building were a gift from Lyman C. Smith, typewriter pioneer and president of L.C. Smith & Brothers Typewriter Company. He was appointed trustee in 1896 and in 1899 was elected Vice-President of the Board of Trustees, remaining in that office until his death in 1910. In 1900 Chancellor Day announced the gift from Mr. Smith for the erection of a building with the necessary equipment for the promotion of mechanical engineering at Syracuse University. At the same time Dr. Day announced the decision of the Trustees to establish the Lyman C. Smith College of Applied Science which would provide programs leading to degrees in Civil , Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering. When the building was occupied the basement housed laboratories; machine shops were on the first floor; a library and class rooms were on the second, while offices and class rooms were on the third. The top floor consisted of a large drafting room. When Machinery Hall was erected in 1907 the machine shops on the first floor were moved, and the space converted into offices, class rooms and drawing rooms.
