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1. Buildings by Category

   1. SUNY ESF

      1. Bray Hall

         At one point or another in their ESF career, all students will pass through Bray Hall. As the oldest building on campus, Bray Hall is home to the College’s administrative offices including the Office of the President, Admissions, Financial Aid & Scholarships, Registrar, and others. The Department of Forest and Natural Resources Management also has its offices in Bray Hall.
         
         The completion of Bray Hall in 1917 gave ESF its first permanent home. Since there were no state funds available to hire vehicles or workers to move the College’s books, furniture, surveying and laboratory equipment or other possessions from their temporary quarters at Syracuse University to the new building, faculty members and approximately 200 ESF students volunteered their services and completed the move in just two days. Bray remained the only building on the ESF campus until Marshall Hall’s completion in 1933. You can still see the College’s original name, the New York State College of Forestry, chiseled in the stonework on the building’s west side. An open rotunda connects the building’s second, third and fourth floors.
         
         

         Formal Name: William L. Bray Hall
         Dedication Date: 1917
         Gross Area: 95,530 SF
         Original Cost: $241,000
         Primary Use: Administrative; Teaching; Research; Service

          

         Program Units

         • College administrative offices
           • Financial Aid & Scholarships
           • Graduate Studies
           • Registrar
           • Alumni Association
           • Development
           • Research
           • Communications
           • Business
           • Human Resources
           • Student Affairs
           • University Police
           • Government Relations
         • Department of Forest and Natural Resources Management
         • Great Lakes Research Consortium
         • Honors Program
         • New York State Center for Forestry Research and Development
         • New York State Center for Hazardous Waste Management
         • Council on McIntire-Stennis Research

         Named Facilities

         • Board Room (room 229)

         Program Support Facilities

         • Copy center (room 5)
         • Continuing education classroom (room 218 A)
         • Trimble Pathfinder Community Base Station (Bray Hall Roof)