page_title: Hiram Sibley
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Hiram Sibley / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: The Sibley School of Mechanical Engineering, now Sibley Hall, was built in three phases. The first building, built in 1870, was the western part (left side); was centered on the northern part of the Arts Quad. An identical second building was built a short distance east of it in 1894 (right side). Then in 1902 the center part (which includes the dome) was built, connecting them. (Also note the first building had the brick tower either behind it, or attached to it). This looks to be the first building, built 1870. Behind it and to the right is the Foundry, built 1883. So that would date this photo as between 1883 and 1894.
context_page_description: Hiram Sibley, was an American industrialist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who was a pioneer of the telegraph in the United States.
context_section_description: In 1874 Sibley funded a library for the University of Rochester. Completed in 1877, it was the second building of the Prince Street campus, and later became part of the Eastman School of Music. The original Sibley Library building was sold in 1956 and torn down in 1968.
  In 1876 Sibley founded and endowed the Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts, as well as the building which housed it, Sibley Hall, at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. The program is now known as the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and is located in parts of Upson, Grumman and Rhodes Halls. Sibley Hall is now a part of the Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.
  Sibley's home near Rochester, the Hiram Sibley Homestead, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. His Rochester home is included in the East Avenue Historic District.
  The Hiram Sibley Building was built in 1925 at the corner of East Avenue and Alexander Street in Rochester, New York. It was named in his honor by his son Hiram Watson Sibley, and designed by Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott of Boston.
caption: Cornell's Sibley College ca 1880s
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