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Home > Departments > Facilities Planning & Design > Campus Info > Building Profiles > North Campus Building Profiles > Cooke-Hochstetter Complex

Cooke-Hochstetter Complex

Cooke-Hochestetter Complex

Cooke Hall

Hochstetter Hall

FUNCTION 

The 1970 campus plan called for the construction of 20 identical linked, towers to house the health sciences on the new North Campus. After the decision to keep the health sciences at the original South Campus, only these two were built. Cooke and Hochstetter Halls primarily house the School of Pharmacy and the Biology Department. Their extensive teaching and research facilities include small classrooms and large lecture halls, as well as laboratories and faculty research offices.

NAMESAKE 

Walter P. Cooke (1869-1931) was a Buffalo attorney active in university life. Cooke recognized the university as the community's most potentially important institution. An expert fundraiser, Cooke organized two endowment drives in the 1920's, earning millions of dollars from subscribers.

Ralph Hochstetter (1870-1955), a Buffalo native, was a successful banker and oil man. Among his many philanthropic activities was a large bequest to the university for medical sciences research fellowships.