Acheson Hall Annex

  • Overview

    Facility
    ACH_A
    Number
    0068
    Function
    Pub Serv
    Gross Square Feet
    10,118
    Construction Cost
    $116,000
    Completed
    June 1966
    Architect
    Butler, Inc.
  • Function

    This temporary metal building was erected in 1966 to provide additional classroom space. It is scheduled for demolition within the next few years or so the story goes. With the limited amount of building space, it proves very difficult to part with such structures.

  • Namesake

    ACH_A.

    Edward Goodrich Acheson (1856-1931) was a successful independant inventor and industrialist who originally worked for Thomas Edison. Acheson invented silicon carbide which he called "carborundum". He then brought an electrochemical company in 1895 to Niagara Falls called Carborundum, Inc. which is still in business today.