This building, also designed by Archimedes Russell and constructed of Onondaga limestone, was erected from funds donated by Erastus F. Holden, the first vice president of SU's Board of Trustees, who underwrote the cost of the observatory and telescope in 1887. It was intended as a memorial to his son, Charles Demerest Holden. Although it now sits between the College of Law and Crouse College, it originally stood on a small rise southwest of the Hall of Languages "to provide an unimpeded view of the heavens." Today, Holden Observatory houses the University Senate Recorder's Office.
