Beck Hall and the Holland Land Company Office

Beck Hall, University at Buffalo South Campus, 2005. The firm of E.B. Green designed the small building in 1930-31
to house the University bookstore. The external design is a nearly exact copy of the Holland Land Office (below). E.B. Green
had a few years earlier won the rights to design the master plan for the University which resulted in the above building, Crosby
Hall, Lockwood Library, Norton Hall, Clark Gym, the Service Building and redesign of Hayes Hall. The firm later designed the
Parker Hall Engineering building before the master plan was discarded in the 1950s. For more information on the history and uses
of the building now known as Beck Hall, look here.

The Holland Land Office Museum, Batavia, NY, 2005. The building was constructed in 1815 to house the offices of the
Holland Land Company, which had purchased 3.5 million acres of land in Western New York in 1792 and was selling land
on behalf of the Dutch owners. For more information on the Holland Land Office Museum, look here.

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