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Millard Fillmore Academic Center (MFAC)
 Facility: FILMOR

 Fargo Quadrangle - Site Map

Fargo Quadrangle - Arial View
 Number: A142
 Function: Academic
 Gross Square Feet: 200,045
 Construction Cost: $8,962,000
 Completed: July, 1974
 Architect: Davis, Brody, and Assoc. of NYC; Milstein, Wittek, Davis Assoc. of Buffalo

 
OCCUPANTS
Administrative Computing
Anthropology
Centrally Scheduled Space
Classics
Campus dining & services
English Language Institute
Katherine Cornell Theater
Academic Services
Articulation & Advising Services & Assessment
Student Activities
Communications and IT Infrastructure
Custodial Residential - North
University Residence Halls
Operational Support Services
Resource Technology & Support Services
Student Academic Records & Financial Services
Systems & Programming Services
University Police
 
FUNCTION
The Ellicott Complex is a 38-building mega-structure consisting of dormitories, dining facilities, academic departments, administrative offices, and classrooms. It was designed to house 3,200 students in the British university system style, with six 'quads' that would focus on subject matter and include faculty as residents, tied to each other by an academic and service core. This system has been abandoned, and various academic departments have relocated to Ellicott as space demands necessitated. Ellicott is notorious for its serpentine corridors and multiple pathways. The Katherine Cornell Theatre, located in the MFAC core, is named for a well know Buffalo actress. It has long been the location for taping of shows by political satirist, Buffalo-born Mark Russell.
 
NAMESAKE

A founder of the University of Buffalo, lawyer and congressman Millard Fillmore (1800-1874) was Chancellor from 1846 to 1874. During his tenure as Chancellor, Fillmore served as Comptroller of New York State (1848-1849) and Vice President (1849-1850) and President (1850-1852) of the United States. Fillmore died in March of 1874. Since 1960 the University has co-sponsored a recognition ceremony at Fillmore's gravesite at Forest Lawn Cemetery on the anniversary of his birth, January 7th.


Joseph Ellicott (1760-1826), the first resident agent of the Holland Land Company, surveyed the Western New York wilderness in 1798. Ellicott was an early advocate of the Erie Canal. He also mapped out a radial-on-grid plan for the city of Buffalo, similar in design to the earlier plan for Washington, D.C.

Millard Fillmore
Joseph Ellicott
 
Modified February 14, 2006 4:10 PM