This list of Syracuse University buildings catalogs significant buildings and facilities, existing or demolished, owned by or closely associated with Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. The university's archives document the university's buildings back to the start of its operations in rented space in 1871.[1]
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Buildings are listed alphabetically.
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200 Walnut Place (Counseling Center)
1901
200 Walnut Place
The building was first purchased by SU in 1943, then sold to Kappa Phi Delta and then repurchased after the frat chapter folded in 2002.
Asserted to be the largest college gymnasium in the world when built. Home of the S.U. basketball team before Manley Field House (1962), except for three years while the gymnasium was rebuilt between 1949 and 1952 after a fire.
Named for Willis H. Booth, who earned an honorary doctorate in law in 1955 and was elected an honorary trustee of the university in 1956. It is a 8-floor coed dormitory building housing 261 students.
Boland and Brewster Halls were built as dorms in 1968. Boland hall is named after John C. Boland (Class of 1899, Law 1901), and his wife, May L. Boland. Brewster Hall is named after Neal Brewster (Law 1902, SU Trustee) and his wife, Mabel Brewster Pierce. Brockway Hall, constructed in 2005, is named after Perle Brown Brockway (College of Medicine in 1908).
Center for International Services (Slutzker Center)
1894
The building was acquired from Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity in 1970 after a $1.9 million endowment from Lillian and Emanuel Slutzker. It was formerly called Lillian and Emanuel Slutzker Center for International Services.
The brick building was built in 1901-02 by William Nottingham and designed by architect Albert L. Brockway. In 1915, after a monetary donation from John D. Archbold, Syracuse University obtained the property. The former residence of the Chancellor at 604 University Avenue, was ceded to the Nottingham family as part of this transaction.
Named for Syracuse Orange football legend Ernie Davis who is first Black athlete to receive the Heisman Trophy. It is SU's first dorm building that meets the LEED rating and was considered a high-tech dorm building when first occupied.
Named for Chancellors James Roscoe Day (1894-1922), and William Pratt Graham (1937-1942), respectively. Located on Mount Olympus. Radio transmitters for the WAER & WJPZ FM are located on the roof of the Day Hall dormitory.
Named after Morse O. DellPlain (SU trustee), who earned an electrical engineering degree from the university in 1903. While the construction was finished in 1959, male students started living there in 1961.
The Dineen Hall houses the Syracuse University College of Law on the West Campus expansion area of SU. Announced in November 2010, it is named for the Dineen family, who provided $15 million naming gift for the $90 million building. SU alumnus Richard Gluckman, of the Gluckman Mayner Architects in New York City, was the lead architect. The 200,000 square feet (19,000 m2), five-story building, located at 950 Irving Avenue, was constructed on the site of the Raynor parking lot in 2013.
The Goldstein Alumni and Faculty Center is a 3-story red brick building which has a Colonial Georgian architecture. The building cost $25,000 to build in 1903 and served as a home to the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, until 1974 when Syracuse University purchased the building from the fraternity and renovated it. The building served as a faculty center, a restaurant, as well as alumni center. Beginning in 2022, the building was repurposed as a visitors' center and hosts the office of admissions.
Originally the site of the Hospital of the Good Shepherd, it was renamed Huntington Hall in 1964 to honor the Frederick Dan Huntington, Episcopal bishop and the founder of the hospital.
Inn Complete (Ski Lodge)
1913
Skytop Road, South Campus
Building was renovated as Ski Lodge in 1947 and occupied in March 1948. Renovated as Inn Complete in 2002 for the Graduate Student Organization.
When built Lawrinson Hall was the second-tallest building in Syracuse at 21 stories. Currently the seventh tallest building in the city of Syracuse. Named after William Henry Lawrinson and Elizabeth M. Lawrinson, and their son Ronald K. Lawrinson (none of the Lawrinsons attended SU).
The five-story, 230,000–square feet, Life Sciences Complex hosts the biology, chemistry, and biochemistry departments. Designed by Ellenzweig Associates of Cambridge, MA, Life Sciences Complex cost $107 million and was the largest building project in the university's history up to that point. The extension was dedicated on November 7, 2008. The Milton atrium, named for Jack and Laura Milton (class of 1951), bridges the old Center for Science and Technology to the new Life Sciences Complex.
Original Catholic Chapel was built in 1905 on nearby private land and was made available to Syracuse students in 1939 by the Rev. Ryan Gannon. Alibrandi Catholic Center building addition was built in 1982.
The National Veterans Resource Center at the Daniel & Gayle D’Aniello building houses the Institute for Veterans and Military Families. The building was designed by SHoP Architects in 2016, and the construction finished in spring 2020. The $64 million facility was funded entirely with philanthropic gifts. The four-story, 126,000-square-foot complex has space for a variety of veteran-related organizations and houses a 750-seat auditorium, a cafe, a gallery, a research center, and a banquet hall that turns into a lounge/study area. The facility serves Regional Student Veteran Resource Center, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs "Vet-Success on Campus", the National Center of Excellence for Veteran Business Ownership, Veteran Business Outreach Center and Accelerator, and Syracuse University's Office of Veteran and Military Affairs, and offices for the Army and Air Force ROTC.
The third addition to the Newhouse communications center, this building has the First Amendment to the United States Constitution etched into the windows. The building also includes a 350-seat auditorium, a dining facility and a media research center. The construction costs of the building was approximately $30 million with $17.5 million coming from the Samuel I. Newhouse foundation, which was one of the largest private donations in the school's history.
The Hildegarde and J. Meyer Schine Student Center was dedicated on October 18, 1985. SU announced renovations to the Schine Student Center as part of the Campus Framework plan and began the work in spring 2019. The newly renovated student center officially reopened on February 8, 2021.
The dorm is named for Robert Shaw and his wife May M. Shaw, who donated $1.5 million towards the construction of the building. The building was designated as a Women's residence hall and served as a Living Learning Community after 1975. Shaw has had several renovations since the late 1980s, including the addition of new wings and a dining hall. Five residential floors of the building house around 475 students.
Houses the School of Architecture. The five-story building — is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Designed by Syracuse University School of Architecture professors Frederick W. Revels and Earl Hallenback and funded by philanthropist Mrs. Russell Sage as a memorial to her father. Construction began in April 1916 but, due to World War I and labor shortages, it was not completed until October 1918. When officially opened in 1919, the Architecture Department of the College of Fine Arts, founded in 1873, shared the building with the Joseph Slocum School of Agriculture and the School of Home Economics and the School of Business.
Built as the Von Ranke Library, the building was converted to administrative use in 1907. It was designed by Archimedes Russell, it is a Romanesque style building of red brick, with circular towers.
A former storage warehouse of the Syracuse-based Dunk and Bright Furniture Company in Downtown Syracuse was purchased by SU in 2005. It was renovated for classroom, gallery, and studio use at a cost of $9 million. The renovation was designed by Syracuse alumnus Richard Gluckman of New York City-based Gluckman Mayner Architects. In 2013, the Warehouse was named in honor of departing president Nancy Cantor.
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^"SU Plans 'Historic' Move Downtown -
College Aims For Community Connections", The Post-Standard, 12 December 2004
^"SU Set to Celebrate Armory Square Site -
The Warehouse Provides a New Home for some of the University's Arts Programs", The Post-Standard, 29 April 2006