Commerce Building Occupied

Commerce Building occupied. It was also known as Draper Annex and was located in back of Draper Hall on Washington Avenue. The building was designed by Harold O. Fullerton, architect, of Albany, and constructed by Panzieri-Henderson, Inc. at a cost of between $739,000 and $800,000. The building included 8 class rooms, faculty offices, a typing room, merchandising laboratory, accounting and secretarial practice rooms, student lounge, and 300 seat auditorium. The Commerce Building was the home to ancient and modern languages, mathematics and business education.

Subjects

General

Source Details

Evan R. Collins, “State Moves Forward,” Alumni Quarterly, January 1950, p. 3 with sketch of proposed additions to Hawley, Draper, and Page and Richardson; a Times Union newspaper clipping, November 19, 1950 found in scrapbook kept by E. Frances Thompson, Class of 1923 Memorabilia, gives the cost of the building as $739,000 and the name of the contractor; while Edward Sobol, "The New Look at State," Alumni Quarterly, October 1951, p. 3, describes the interior arrangements