Fernow Hall is an early twentieth century

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

building, that was listed on the

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in 1984. It currently houses the Department of Natural Resources. It is named in honor of

Bernhard Fernow Bernhard Eduard Fernow ( ; January 7, 1851 – February 6, 1923) was the third chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Division of Forestry of the United States from 1886 to 1898, preceding Gifford Pinchot in that position, and laying much ...

, who was the only Dean during the five-year history of the

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. It was designed by Green & Wicks in the Colonial Revival style and constructed in 1915.

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Cornell University buildings New York State College of Forestry University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) National Register of Historic Places in Tompkins County, New York 1912 establishments in New York (state) Green & Wicks buildings {{TompkinsCountyNY-NRHP-stub