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The SUNY System Administration Building, formerly the Delaware & Hudson Railroad Building, is a public office building located at the intersection of Broadway and State Street in downtown Albany, New York. Locally the building and land it sits on is referred to as State University Plaza, or the D&H Plaza;〔 prior to the construction of the Empire State Plaza it was simply "The Plaza". It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 as 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. The central tower 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 is centrally administered from this location. The southern tower's four top floors are the official residence of the Chancellor of SUNY. ==History== File:Stateeast1914.jpg|State Street looking east as it did prior to the Plaza. File:BroadwaysouthAlbany1914.jpg|Broadway looking south, the Plaza would soon be on the left The building and the land it sits on itself has a varied history. The building sits at the foot of State Street along Broadway, in the oldest part of the city. It was here that several of Albany's earliest city halls sat, along with the New York State Legislature in the 18th century. The Albany Plan of Union in 1754, presided over by Ben Franklin, was held here.〔 This land was once along the Hudson River's banks, over time being infilled, including in 1911 as part of the construction of the Plaza. The city of Albany purchased and consolidated the land ownership that allowed the D&H to build the building and the city to have a park in front surrounded by a street that acted as a loop for the trolleys running on State Street. Public access was allowed to the Hudson River through the central tower and by way of an underground tunnel to the other side of the D&H tracks. The design by Marcus T. Reynolds was based on the Nieuwerk annex of the Cloth Hall in Ypres, Belgium.〔〔 Originally for this site Reynolds envisioned a triangular park at the termination of State Street with a large L-shaped pier that would go north for three city blocks that would also support another park with a bandshell and docks for yachts and boats. That design would have cost $1 million and was opposed by neighborhood groups as too expensive and grand a design, along with the problems of the railroad traffic. The idea of opening up the view of the waterfront to the public was considered unfeasible and undesirable as the river was full of commercial docks, wharves, warehouses, and railroads. A plan initiated by the Albany Chamber of Commerce (later published under the name of ''Stvdies for Albany'') decided upon a public park as a plaza surrounded by buildings that would screen the locomotive smoke, obnoxious odors and sights of the working waterfront from the vista of State Street.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = The State University of New York )〕 The D&H Railroad used the building as their corporate headquarters; the southern part of the building, which was built later than the main building in 1916-18, housed the ''Albany Evening Journal'' newspaper. William Barnes, editor of Evening Journal had a lavish apartment on the upper floors. In 1924 the paper was sold to the Albany Times Union and the building became home to various other businesses including the predecessor to the New York State Department of Transportation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = The State University of New York )〕 After the D&H and Evening Journal both abandoned the building it sat dormant until November 1972 when the State University of New York (SUNY) announced it would purchase the building as its first permanent home, having occupied One Commerce Plaza as a temporary home since March of that year. SUNY purchased the building in 1973 and construction began that year. The offices were moved into in 1978. That same year SUNY Chancellor Clifton Wharton, Jr. decided that the southern tower would house the chancellor's apartment. The total renovation of the Plaza cost $15 million. In 1977 the neighboring Federal Building was purchased and added to the State University Plaza. William Hall Associates won the top Owens Corning Energy Conservation Award in the government category for their work in the renovation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = The State University of New York )〕 The building's facade was restored from 1996 to 2001; it was covered in scaffolding during the five years of the restoration.〔("Caution at comptroller's building" ). Albany ''Times Union''. July 27, 2009.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SUNY System Administration Building」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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