Roosevelt Hall

  • Overview

    Facility
    ROSVLT
    Number
    A174
    Function
    Residen
    Gross Square Feet
    70,902
    Construction Cost
    $2,316,000
    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

    Roosevelt.

    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.