[3] It is named in honor of the 5th President of RPI, John F. Winslow, who donated half of the construction cost.

[4] The building is brick with stone trimmings and was originally constructed with butternut, chestnut and black walnut.

The design and construction was overseen by Professor Henry B. Nason, head of the department of chemistry at the Institute.

The library of chemical books was established by a donation of several sets of journals and a gift of three hundred dollars from John F.

[3] Currently the Winslow Building is home to many research groups affiliated to Cognitive Science and Computer science departments of Rensselaer, namely, the Rensselaer AI and Reasoning Laboratory,[6] the Social and Behavioral Research Laboratory,[7] the Tetherless World Constellation (since 2007),[8] etc.