SUNY Plaza, or the H. Carl McCall SUNY Building, formerly the Delaware & Hudson Railroad Company Building, is a public
office building located at 353 Broadway at the intersection with State Street in downtown
Albany, New York, United States. Locally the building is sometimes referred to as "The Castle" or "D&H Plaza";
["A History of the D&H Building, our SUNY Plaza"]
SUNY website prior to the construction of the nearby Empire State Plaza
The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza (known commonly as the Empire State Plaza, and also as the South Mall) is a complex of several state government buildings in downtown Albany, New York.
The complex was built between 1965 a ...
it was simply "The Plaza". The central tower of the building is thirteen stories high and is capped by an working weathervane that is a replica of Henry Hudson's '' Half Moon''.
The State University of New York
The State University of New York (SUNY, , ) is a system of public colleges and universities in the State of New York. It is one of the largest comprehensive system of universities, colleges, and community colleges in the United States. Led by c ...
system is centrally administered from the building. The southern tower's four top floors were once the official residence of the Chancellor of SUNY.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 under the name Delaware and Hudson Railroad Company Building.[ In 1980, when the Downtown Albany Historic District was listed on the Register, it was included as a ]contributing property
In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distri ...
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History
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