University at Buffalo The State University of New York
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| Facility: | ROSVLT |  |
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| Number: | A174 | ||
| Function: | Dorm | ||
| Gross Square Feet: | 64,243 | ||
| Construction Cost: | $2,316,000 | ||
| Completed: | November, 1972 | ||
| Architect: | I.M. Pei and Associates | ||
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| University Residence Halls Campus dining & services Custodial Residential - North Residence Life - Administration |
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| Governors Residence Complex is a dormitory for freshman, honors, international, graduate, and other students. It consists of four linked halls: Clinton, Dewey, Lehman & Roosevelt. Roosevelt Hall is an exclusively freshman dorm; Clinton Hall is an exclusively graduate dorm. The Governors complex was designed by I.M. Pei. Pei also designed an addition to the Louvre and Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. SUNY used Pei's plans to design a dormitory at SUNY Fredonia that is architecturally identical to Governors. | |||
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) was Governor of New York
State from 1898 to 1900 and President of the United States following
the assassination of William McKinley in Buffalo. George F. Rand, for whom the central Rand Plaza is named, was a banker and leading citizen of Buffalo who died in 1942. |
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| Modified February 14, 2006 4:17 PM | |||