Ellerbe Becket was an independent

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-based

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and

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firm until 2009, when it was acquired by

AECOM AECOM (, ; formerly AECOM Technology Corporation; stylised A''Ξ''COM) is an American multinational infrastructure consulting firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The company's official name from 1990–2015 was AECOM Technology Corporation, ...

. The firm currently employs 475 people in seven locations and three countries, and has designed buildings in all of the 50 states and in 20 countries.

History

The company originally called Ellerbe & Co. was founded by Franklin Ellerbe in 1909 in

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. Its first clients included the

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and 3M. Thomas Ellerbe took over the company in 1921 upon his father's death. When he retired in 1966 it became an employee-owned company. In 1988 it merged with Welton Becket and Associates of Los Angeles and became Ellerbe Becket. In 1988 it opened a sports design division in Kansas City. On October 26, 2009, Ellerbe Becket joined the architecture, planning, and engineering firm AECOM.

Projects

General buildings

* Ronald Reagan Building,

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* Carlson School of Management -

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, MN * Kingdom Centre,

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* Target Plaza South and North,

, MN * Science Museum of Minnesota St. Paul, MN * Brasil Telecom Data Center, Brasília, Brazil * Charles Evans Whittaker Federal Courthouse, Kansas City, MO * Hesburgh Library, 1963 * O'Shaughnessy Hall (1953), North Dining Hall (1957), Keenan Hall and Stanford Hall (1957), Stepan Center (1962), Lewis Hall (1965), Galvin Life Science (1967), Grace and Flanner Halls (1969), Fitzpatrick Hall of Engineering (1974), Snite Museum of Art (1980), Pasquerilla West (1980), Pasquerilla East (1981), Stepan Chemistry Hall (1982), Decio Faculty Hall (1984), Siegfried Hall (1988), Knott Hall (1988), Pasquerilla Center (1990), Ricci Band Building (1990), Hesburgh Center for International Studies (1991), DeBartolo Hall (1992), Mendoza College of Business (1996), O'Neill Hall (1996), Keough Hall (1996), McGlinn Hall (1997), Welsh Family Hall (1997) at the

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Health care

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Medical Center - Severance Hospital,

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*Khalifa Sport City - Orthopedic Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar This is now Aspetar *

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Memorial Cancer Institute,

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* Mercy Medical Center,

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, Rochester, MN * Plummer Building, Rochester, MN recognized on the

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* Sanford Health, Sioux Falls, SD *St. Luke's Hospital Nassif Heart Center, Cedar Rapids, IA *St. Rita's Medical Center, Lima, OH *Stonewall Jackson Hospital, Lexington, VA * Gonda Building, Rochester, MN * Regions Hospital (2009 expansion & cafeteria renovation), St. Paul, MN *Mercy Clinic and Hospital (expansion 1950s), Oskaloosa, Iowa

Residential Structures

Due to the relationship between Franklin Ellerbe,

co-founder William James Mayo, and builder Garfield Schwartz at the turn of the 20th century, Ellerbe's residential portfolio exists almost exclusively in

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. * Plummer House, Rochester, MN recognized on the

* Pill Hill Residential Historic District, Rochester, MN (approximately 30 homes) recognized on the

. See List of Residences in Pill Hill Historic District, Rochester, Minnesota. * Dr. William J. Mayo House, Rochester, MN recognized on the

* Dr. Donald C. Balfour House, Rochester, MN recognized on the

Sports facilities

The following were designed by the Kansas City Sports Venue branch

Stadiums

Notre Dame Stadium Notre Dame Stadium is an outdoor college football, football stadium in Notre Dame, Indiana, the home field of the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish football, Fighting Irish football team. It was built in 1930 under the guidance of Knute Ro ...

(and renovation), Notre Dame, IN *

Lumen Field Lumen Field is a multi-purpose stadium in Seattle, Washington, United States. Located in the city's SoDo neighborhood, it is the home field for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL), Seattle Sounders FC of Major League ...

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Centennial Olympic Stadium Centennial Olympic Stadium was the 85,000-seat main stadium of the 1996 Summer Olympics and 1996 Summer Paralympics, Paralympics in Atlanta, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States. Construction of the stadium began in 1993, and it was comp ...

Turner Field Turner Field was a baseball stadium located in Atlanta, Georgia. From 1997 Atlanta Braves season, 1997 to 2016 Atlanta Braves season, 2016, it served as the home ballpark to the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball (MLB). Originally built ...

(now Georgia State Stadium),

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, GA *

Faurot Field Faurot Field ( , ) at Memorial Stadium is an outdoor sports stadium in Columbia, Missouri, United States, on the campus of the University of Missouri. It is primarily used for football and serves as the home field for the Missouri Tigers' pro ...

(renovation), Columbia, MO * Guangdong Olympic Stadium,

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Lambeau Field Lambeau Field () is an outdoor athletic stadium in the East North Central states, north central United States, located in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The home field of the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL), it opened in 1957 Green ...

(renovation), Green Bay, WI * Rentschler Field, East Hartford, CT * Rhodes Stadium, Elon, NC *

Chase Field Chase Field, formerly Bank One Ballpark, is a retractable roof, retractable-roof stadium in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. It is the ballpark of Major League Baseball's Arizona Diamondbacks. It opened in 1998 Arizona Diamondbacks season, 1998, the ...

, Phoenix, AZ * Autzen Stadium (renovation), Eugene, OR * S.B. Ballard Stadium (formerly '' Foreman Field''), (renovation),

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Sam Boyd Stadium Sam Boyd Stadium (formerly the Las Vegas Silver Bowl) is a closed American football, football stadium in Whitney, Nevada, an unincorporated community in the Las Vegas Valley. It honors Sam Boyd (1910–1993), a major figure in the hotel and casin ...

(renovation), Las Vegas, NV * Johnny Unitas Stadium (renovation), Towson, MD * Innovative Field, (formerly '' Frontier Field''),

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* O'Shaughnessy Stadium, Saint Paul, MN

Arenas

* Frost Bank Center (formerly ''SBC Center'' and '' AT&T Center''), San Antonio, TX *

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* Amerant Bank Arena (formerly ''Office Depot Center'', '' BB&T Center'', '' National Car Rental Center'', '' BankAtlantic Center'', and '' FLA Live Arena''), Sunrise, FL * Amica Mutual Pavilion (formerly '' Dunkin' Donuts Center'' and ''Providence Civic Center''),

Providence, RI Providence () is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. The county seat of Providence County, it is one of the oldest cities in New England, founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and ...

* FedExForum,

Memphis, TN Memphis is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, and its county seat. Situated along the Mississippi River, it had a population of 633,104 at the 2020 census, making it the second-most populous city in Tennessee, the fifth-most p ...

* Gainbridge Fieldhouse, (formerly ''Conseco Fieldhouse'' and ''Bankers Life Fieldhouse''), Indianapolis, IN * Great Southern Bank Arena, (formerly ''JQH Arena''), Springfield, MO * John Paul Jones Arena, Charlottesville, VA * Joyce Center, (formerly '' Athletic & Convocation Center''), Notre Dame, IN *

KeyBank Center KeyBank Center is a multipurpose indoor arena located in Buffalo, New York, United States. Originally known as Marine Midland Arena, the venue has since been named HSBC Arena and First Niagara Center. Home to the Buffalo Sabres of the Nation ...

, (formerly '' First Niagara Center'',)

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* Rudolf Weber-Arena, (formerly '' Arena Oberhausen'' and '' König-Pilsener-Arena''),

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Madison Square Garden Madison Square Garden, colloquially known as the Garden or by its initials MSG, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in New York City. It is located in Midtown Manhattan between Seventh Avenue (Manhattan), Seventh and Eighth Avenue (Manhattan), Eig ...

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, New York (1990s renovation) *

Manchester Arena Manchester Arena (currently known as AO Arena for sponsorship reasons) is an indoor arena in Manchester, England, immediately north of the Manchester city centre, city centre and partly above Manchester Victoria station in air rights space. Pr ...

(formerly ''Manchester Evening News Arena''),

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* Matthew Knight Arena, Eugene, OR *

Moda Center Moda Center, formerly known as the Rose Garden, is the primary indoor sports arena in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is used for basketball, rodeos, circuses, conventions, ice shows, concerts, and dramatic productions. The arena has a capa ...

, Portland, OR * Rocket Arena (formerly ''Gund Arena'', ''Quicken Loans Arena'', and ''Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse''), Cleveland, OH *

Saitama Super Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in Chūō-ku, Saitama, Chūō-ku, Saitama (city), Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. It opened preliminarily on May 5, 2000, and then was officially opened on September 1 of the same year. Its maximum capa ...

, Saitama,

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* Enterprise Center (formerly '' Scottrade Center''), St. Louis, MO * Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena, Spokane, WA * T-Mobile Center, (formerly) '' Sprint Center'', Kansas City, MO *

Amalie Arena Amalie Arena (officially stylized as AMALIE Arena) is a multipurpose arena in Tampa, Florida, United States, that has been used for ice hockey, basketball, arena football, concerts, and other events. It is mainly used as the home for the Tamp ...

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Vibrant Arena at The MARK The Vibrant Arena at The MARK, formerly known as The MARK of the Quad Cities, the iWireless Center, and the TaxSlayer Center, is a 12,000-seat multi-purpose arena located in Moline, Illinois. The facility opened in May 1993, under the name The MA ...

, (formerly) '' The MARK of the Quad Cities'', '' i Wireless Center'', and ''TaxSlayer Center''),

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* Footprint Center (formerly ''Talking Stick Resort Arena'', ''America West Arena'', and ''US Airways Center''), Phoenix, AZ *

TD Garden TD Garden (named the FleetCenter from opening until 2005 and TD Banknorth Garden until 2009) is a multi-purpose arena in Boston. It is located directly above the MBTA's North Station, and it replaced the original Boston Garden upon opening i ...

(formerly ''FleetCenter''),

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Thomas & Mack Center The Thomas & Mack Center is a multi-purpose arena located on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in Paradise, Nevada. It is home of the UNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball team of the Mountain West Conference. History The facility first ...

, Paradise, NV * Capital One Arena (formerly ''MCI Center'' and ''Verizon Center''),

* Wells Fargo Center,

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* XFINITY Center (formerly ''Comcast Center''), College Park, MD

References

External links

AECOM websiteCBS article about Superdome renovation by Ellerbe Becket
{{Authority control Defunct architecture firms based in Minnesota Design companies established in 1909 1909 establishments in Minnesota Defunct companies based in Minneapolis 2009 mergers and acquisitions