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Home > Departments > Facilities Planning & Design > Campus Info > Building Profiles > North Campus Building Profiles > Fargo Quadrangle

Fargo Quadrangle

Ellicott Complex

Facility:
Number:
Function:
Gross Square Feet:
Construction Cost:
Completed:
Architect:

FARGO
A141
Dorm
140,395
$1,584,000
April, 1974
Davis, Brody, and Assoc. of NYC; Milstein, Wittek, Davis Assoc. of Buffalo

OCCUPANTS 

Fargo Quadrangle Occupany Report  Adobe Reader Document (PDF)

FUNCTION 

The Ellicott Complex is a 38-building mega-structure consisting of dormitories, dining facilities, academic departments, administrative offices, and classrooms. It was designed to house 3,200 students in the British university system style, with six 'quads' that would focus on subject matter and include faculty as residents, tied to each other by an academic and service core. This system has been abandoned, and various academic departments have relocated to Ellicott as space demands necessitated. Ellicott is notorious for its serpentine corridors and multiple pathways. The Katherine Cornell Theatre, located in the MFAC core, is named for a well know Buffalo actress. It has long been the location for taping of shows by political satirist, Buffalo-born Mark Russell.

NAMESAKE 

William FargoWilliam G. Fargo (1817-1881), of Wells-Fargo fame, was known for the development of freight transportation and for his role in promoting business along the Erie Canal by the use of steamboats, wagons and railroads. He was said to be a man with fidelity, energy and good judgement. Mr. Fargo worked with extraordinary force, industry and tact to accomplish what proved to have been “his mission,” and after some years of persevering effort he succeeded in founding a Western express upon a permanent basis.

Joseph EllicottJoseph Ellicott (1760-1826), the first resident agent of the Holland Land Company, surveyed the Western New York wilderness in 1789. Ellicott was an early advocate of the Erie Canal. He also mapped out a radial-on-grid plan for the city of Buffalo, similar in design to the earlier plan for Washington, D.C.