Building Ready for Occupancy: October 1, 1898

Builders: Dickinson and Van Wagner

Style: Modified Renaissance of a severe nature

Architect: E. H. Gaggin, Syracuse University School of Architecture

Materials: Rock-faced Onondaga limestone

Notes:

This building was erected in 1898 to house the science departments which had been located in the Hall of Languages. In 1897 Mrs. Esther Baker Steele of Elmira, friend and trustee of the University, offered $5,000 for the erection of a laboratory, and soon gifts from others were contributed, with the largest being $28,000 from John D. Archbold. The building was designed to house the Department of Physics, but over the years has been the home of many other departments.

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