Buffalo Psychiatric Center – Administration Building

The H. H. Richardson Complex - Administration Building, in 1965

The Administration Building of the Buffalo Psychiatric Center is the central building of the H. H. Richardson Complex in Buffalo, New York.[1]

The administration building has monumental, medieval, double, identical towers (each 185 feet tall), each with four corner turrets and dramatically steep copper roofs punctuated with dormered windows, all of which gave the administration building an imposing appearance. These great paired towers make the Psychiatric Center one of the most striking public buildings in America. The towers were never intended to house any functions and to this day are unfinished. This building once housed officers and their families on the second and third floors, and a large chapel occupied space on the fourth floor.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Archives: Architecture: A towering masterpiece: H.H. Richardson's Buffalo State Hospital, Buffalo Spree, Buffalo, NY, March/April 2000, Kowsky, F.R., Retrieved 15 December 2013.
  2. ↑ Kowsky, Francis (1981). Buffalo Architecture: A guide. Cambridge: MIT Press. pp. 64–69. ISBN 0-262-02172-2.
Preceded by
Unknown		 Tallest Building in Buffalo
1871—1876
49m 		Succeeded by
Erie County Hall

Coordinates: 42°55′45″N 78°52′49″W / 42.92905°N 78.88041°W / 42.92905; -78.88041


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