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Home > Departments > Facilities Planning & Design > Campus Info > Building Profiles > North Campus Building Profiles > Dewey Hall

Dewey Hall

Governors Residence Complex

Facility:
Number:
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Construction Cost:
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Architect:

DEWEY
A172
Dorm 
55,458 
$1,999,000
November, 1972
I.M. Pei and Associates

OCCUPANTS 

Dewey Hall Occupany Report  Adobe Reader Document (PDF)

FUNCTION 

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

NAMESAKE 

Thomas E. Dewey (1903-1971) was Governor of New York State from 1943 to 1954, during which time the State University was created.

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