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Finding Aid for the
CAMPUS CONSTRUCTION
COLLECTION, 1961-1988
(UA-950.005)

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Published Volumes

Box and Folder List:

• Series 1: Planning Documents, 1960-1975, .75 cubic ft.
• Series 2: Subject Files, 1951-1987, .62 cubic ft.

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State University of New York at Albany uptown campus, designed by Edward Durell Stone, photographed by Ezra Stoller Associates. [17] leaves of plates, photos (black and white), 38 x 38 cm.
Presentation album of the construction of the State University of New York at Albany uptown campus. Numbered series 166 AA.

Edward Durell Stone Architect, Edward D. Stone, Jr. & Associates, John Galbreath Burdis Associates Planning Consultants. State University of New York at Albany. [Portfolio Site Plan for Proposed 30 to 40,000 Student State University of New York at Albany Campus, circa 1962], 25" x 35"
Includes 23 leaves containing regional maps, site plans, aerial photographs of the Uptown Campus and surrounding lands and the [Harriman] State Office Campus of New York State Government, site analysis and function drawings, land use and acquisition drawings, and a schematic for the campus buildings.

Leaves

1. Regional map-Capital District
2. Community existing land use
3. Zoning map
4. Community future land use and circulation analysis
5. Site analysis
6. Site analysis diagram, man made
7. Existing functional diagram
8. Land expansion analysis
9. Proposed function diagram ideal
10. Site related function diagram
11. Interim plan (includes overhead view of proposed married student housing, Milne School situated on Western Avenue, Norman's Kill Dairy Center, four new high rise dormitory complexes, a massive expansion of the Academic Podium East, West, North & South, a football stadium across Washington Avenue East of the Hellman's Complex, and a separate Graduate Research Complex on the East side of the Campus)
12. Proposed land acquisition diagram, 1963-75
13. Key 1: Campus System: Highways
14. Key 2: Public Transit Routs: Proposals
15. Key 3: Service Access: Proposals
16. Key 4: Access Alternatives
17. Key 5: Special Events Access
18. Natural Gas Service Lines
19. Heating, Ventilation, & Air Conditioning Master Plan (scheme #1)
20. Heating, ventilation, & air conditioning Master Plan (scheme #2)
21. Electrical Master Plan (preliminary)
22. Seven aerial photos of the Uptown Campus construction site (cleared land) & adjacent lands including the I-90/I-87 interchange, industrial buildings north of I-90 bordering Fuller Road. Photos taken from the West and North.
23. Seven aerial photos of the Harriman State Office Campus & adjacent lands including the cleared SUNYA Campus. Foreground of photos is of housing south of Western Avenue, bordered by the SUNYA Campus, Fuller Road & Western Avenue, and East of Route 85. Photos taken from the East and South.

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Series 1: Planning Documents, 1960-1975

Box 1
Folder

1. 1974 Comprehensive Campus Plan Updating SUNYA, August 2, 1967
2. 1974 Comprehensive Campus Plan Updating SUNYA, June 7, 1967
3. 1974 Comprehensive Site Plan Updating SUNYA, July 1968
4. 1974 Comprehensive Site Plan Updating SUNYA, July 1968
5. 1974 Comprehensive Site Plan Updating SUNYA, Summary Report, July 1968
6. Arena Theater, 1962-1964
7. Building Progress Report, 1967-1971
8. Correspondence, 1961-1969
9. Correspondence, 1968
10. Correspondence, Meeting Minutes, Material Bound for Walter Tisdale, 1961-1966
11. Documents, 1961-1966
12. Documents and News Clippings, 1967-1974
13. "Futures: State University of New York and your children," Pamphlet, undated
14. "Land Requirements and Building Needs of the State of New York in the Albany Area and Acquisition by the State of the Site of the Albany Country Club," 1960
15. Lounge Space, 1971
16. New Campus, 1962-1967
17. New Campus, Miscellaneous, Memos, 1966-1969
18. New Campus Rooms and Offices, Binder, undated
19. Planning, Buildings, 1958-1964
20. Planning, General, 1962-1964, 1970
21. Progress Report on SUNY 1964 Master Plan, Correspondence, 1962-1975
22. SUNY College at Albany Site Planning Program, December 28, 1960
23. SUNYA: Comprehensive Campus Plan Report Action Program, May 1, 1965
24. State University of New York at Albany, Data Booklet, December 4, 1963
25. State University of New York at Albany, Justification for Humanities Building II, undated
26. State University of New York at Albany, Justification for Social Science Building II, August 1967
27. State University of New York at Albany, Justification for Business Building II, August 1967
28. "SUNY Planning Guidelines for Facilities at University Centers" prepared by William T. Conway, Program Coordinators for University Centers, February 1965
29. State University of New York at Albany, Program for New Academic Building, (Annex A), February 1972-1978
30. University Building Planning, Correspondence, 1960-1969
31. University Building Planning, Correspondence, 1960-1969

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Series 2: Subject Files, 1951-1987

Box 1 (continued)
Folder

32. Atlas Cement Promotional Brochures, 1970; SUNY Master Plan, 1964; SUNY Summary Bulletin, Fall 1965
33. Campus Environmental Improvement Program, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, 1987
34. Campus Environmental Improvement Program, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Copy, 1987
35. Committee of the University, 1970-1971
36. Construction News Clippings, 1963-1967
37. Dormitory Authority of the State of New York Annual Report, 1965-1966
38. Edward Durell Stone, SUNYA Scrapbook (Photocopy of the original courtesy of the office of Dennis Sebeveal), 1962-1970

Box 2
Folder

1. "The Environment of a College: A Study of the Campus and Construction of SUNYA," by Dennis Esposiet, October 20, 1975
2. Equipment, Memos, Forms, Inventory, Proposals and Procedures, 1951, 1958-1972
3. Food Services, 1962-1968
4. The Politics of Architecture: A Perspective on Nelson A. Rockefeller, Chapter 4: "The State University of New York," By Samuel E. Bleecker, 1981
5. Stone and SUNYA Campus Exhibit Cards, 1987
6. Uptown Campus, 30-40,000 Student Scenario, undated

Box 3
Folder

1. Edward Durrell Stone, undated
2. Construction, News Clippings, Photocopies, 1956-1962
3. Construction, News Clippings, Originals, 1956-1962
4. Construction, Highlights, News Clippings, undated
5. Construction, News Clippings, 1963-1965
6. Construction, News Clippings, 1966-1985