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English: Buildings Plans Announced: January 18, 1905

Construction Began: Summer 1905 Occupied: 1907

Cost: $250,000 Funding: $200,000 bequest from John Lyman in memory of his daughters Named for: Mary and Jessie Lyman, deceased daughters of John Lyman, Board of Trustees from 1893 to January 1904 Materials: Marble base; brick and Indiana limestone Architects: Professors Frederick W. Revels and Earl Hallenbeck Style: Renaissance

Partial Renovation: 1963 - 8 graduate labs, offices and a seminar room Cost: $90,482 Funding: $46,825 National Science Foundation grant

Partial Renovation: 2009 - first and second floors remodeled to create Technology Center Cost: $1.4 million Funding: JP Morgan Chase

Notes: Originally named John Lyman Hall of Natural History, it was occupied by the Departments of Biology, Botany, Geology, Zoology, Psychology and Geography, in 1930 the fourth floor was remodeled and made into the Natural History Museum bringing together the various museum collections previously distributed throughout the building. On January 11, 1937 a loud explosion was heard from the lab of Dr. Ernest Reed and shortly thereafter a fire was reported on the fourth floor of the building. The fire destroyed the top floor and the roof of the building as well as many of the valuable museum collections and research materials of a number of professors and graduate students. Possibly caused by an unattended gas burner igniting lab equipment and the resulting fire reaching stored photographic film and gun powder, fire damage was estimated at $79,000. By the start of February, the building was once again open for classes; it was completely restored by September of 1937.

In 2009, two floors were remodeled to house the JP Morgan Chase Technology Center, an on-campus facility where students and faculty partner with bank employees to conduct research and run global technology operations.

Address: 100 College Place Syracuse, NY 13244

Lyman Hall at Syracuse University was completed in 1907. It is located west of College Place and north of Link Hall in Syracuse, New York. Primarily funded by a bequest from retired Board of Trustee member John Lyman, this Renaissance style, six-story brick and Indiana limestone structure is named in honor of Lyman’s two deceased daughters.

The top floor and roof were rebuilt after a fire in 1937, and the building has had subsequent partial renovations over the years, primarily in the mid-1960s and circa 2009. It now houses offices, classrooms, and associated support facilities for the Aging Studies Institute and Environmental Health. It also contains a physical anthropology teaching laboratory, research facilities, and offices for archaeologists from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

This historic structure is reported to comprise 97,133 gross square feet.