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Home > Departments > Facilities Planning & Design > Campus Info > Building Profiles > South Campus Building Profiles > Macdonald Hall

Macdonald Hall

MacDonald Hall

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

MCDNLD
0005
Dorm
37,117
$163,000
June, 1953
James, Meadows & Howard

OCCUPANTS 

Macdonald Hall Occupany Report  Adobe Reader Document (PDF)

FUNCTION 

MacDonald Hall is one of four matching dormitories surrounding Kimball Tower that began UB's history as a residential college.

NAMESAKE 

Lillias M. MacDonaldLillias M. MacDonald (1885-1961), a Buffalo native, taught physical education in the YWCA and in Buffalo schools before Chancellor Capen appointed her to the positions of Dean of Women (UB's first Dean of Women) and Assistant Professor of Hygiene in 1922. (MacDonald taught Hygiene at UB until 1948. She devoted nearly 25 years to the establishment of on-campus student residence halls. MacDonald began advocating dormitories almost immediately after joining the faculty.