Albert Randolph Ross, Architect And Hon. George Lewis Heins, State Architect, To Design The New Three Building Washington & Western Avenue Campus.
1907 March
Albert Randolph Ross, Architect and Hon. George Lewis Heins, State Architect, jointly commissioned to design the new three building Washington & Western Avenue Campus. Ross designed the exterior in the classical Georgian style, while Heins offices prepares interior drawings and specifications. $366,000 was appropriated for the buildings.
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Memorandum of Agreement Made At A Conference Held at the Ways & Means Committee Room in the State Capital, At Albany, March 13, 1907, Executive Committee Minutes, Vol. 2, p. 653-55. The contract to construct the buildings was awarded to the A. E. Stephens Co. of Binghamton. Minutes of the Executive Committee, Oct. 9, 1907, Vol. II, p. 664; see also Eunice Perine, “A Silver Anniversary, 1908-1933, the Romance of the Architectural Design of Our College,” Alumni Quarterly, January 1933, p. 3-4. Perine quotes a letter from Ross in which he describes the design of the college as a “very pure Georgian style.”