Clinton Hall

  • Overview

    Facility
    CLINTN
    Number
    A171
    Function
    Residen
    Gross Square Feet
    63,140
    Construction Cost
    $1,980,000
    Completed
    November 1972
    Architect
    I.M. Pei and Associates

  • Function

    Governors Residence Complex is a dormitory for freshman, honors, international, graduate, and other students. It consists of four linked halls: Clinton, Dewey, Lehman & Roosevelt. 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.

  • Namesake

    DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828) served in the New York State Legislature and the U.S. Senate, and was Mayor of New York City and Governor of New York State from 1817-1823 and 1825-1828. He was instrumental in the creation of the Erie Canal.

    George F. Rand, for whom the central Rand Plaza is named, was a banker and leading citizen of Buffalo who died in 1942.