Canisius College Magazine 2001 Main Street | Buffalo, NY 14208 | canisius.edu
AS YOU WERE Pictured is 651 Washington Street, home to Canisius College from 1872 until 1912, when student enrollment began to exceed classroom accommodations. The college searched for a larger, more expansive learning environment and found it at 2001 Main Street. Construction on Old Main, the college’s primary classroom building, began in 1912 and Canisius held its first classes on ‘the new campus’ in January 1913. The legacy of Canisius’ first 100 years on Main Street is commemorated on pages 21-24 of Canisius Magazine, which take a chronological look back at some of the college’s most memorable milestones of the past century.