ECC City Campus Building (Buffalo, New York)

USA / New York / Buffalo / Buffalo, New York / Ellicott Street, 121
 NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, community college

Located in the former Federal Post Office Building at 121 Ellicot Street, ECC's City Campus Building presently houses classrooms and administrative offices for the college and its students.

The Federal Post Office Building itself was designed by James Knox Taylor in a highly ornamented Gothic Revival style, and features a 244ft tall clock tower over the central entrance leading to a central courtyard flanked surrounded by four stories of office space. Constructed between 1898 and 1901, when completed the Federal Post Office was the tallest building in the City of Buffalo until 1912 and served as the city's main Post Office until 1963.

Handed over from USPS control to the Federal Government, the building was used as office space until it was transferred to the State of New York and made part of the SUNY system as part of Erie Community College in 1982. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

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Coordinates:   42°52'54"N   78°52'21"W
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