Type Public Space/Hotel Completed 1970 Floor count 14 Floors 14 Architect Marcel Breuer | Construction started 1969 Antenna spire 204.98 feet (62.48 m) Opened 1970 Phone +1 413-577-8001 | |
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Location 1 Campus Center Way
Amherst, Massachusetts 01003
United States Address 1 Campus Center Way, Amherst, MA 01003, USA Similar Old Chapel, John W Lederle Graduate, Garden in the Woods, Earl Lorden Field, UMass Softball Complex | ||
View from the murray d lincoln campus center umass amherst 3 11 2017
Murray D. Lincoln Campus Center is a high-rise building on the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus, in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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View from the murray d lincoln campus center 12 8 2016
Building
The concrete building and attached parking garage were designed by Marcel Breuer, in the Modernist and Brutalist architectural styles.
The building also hosts The Campus Center Hotel on the upper floors of the building. The hotel consists of 116 rooms. Between 2008 and 2009, the hotel was renovated by Eastern General Contractors of Springfield, MA under the direction of Architectural firm Gensler.
Murray D. Lincoln
The Center is named after Murray D. Lincoln who was president of the National Cooperative Business Association from 1941 to 1965. As a board member of the International Cooperative Alliance, Lincoln was a spokesman for cooperatives in many spheres. He was also the first president of CARE.
He led in forming economic associations, such as: the Ohio Farm Bureau Cooperative Association, an agricultural credit association, a rural electric association, and what is now the Nationwide Insurance organization. As the president of Nationwide, he moved the organization into diverse areas of serving people’s needs.