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Park Hotel/Oberlin Inn (1st)
In 1866 Henry Viets offered to erect a hotel on the site of the former village hotel (built in 1833-34 and destroyed by fire in 1866), provided the College and citizens of the town contributed $5,000 toward its erection. The Trustees of the College…
Society Hall
The construction of Society Hall was begun in 1867 and completed in 1868. It was a two-story brick building built at the same time and in the same style as French Hall, located on the west side of the Campus near the north end. As originally…
Daub House
This plain brick house, built during the Civil War, was updated later in the 19th century with the decorative wooden porch and bargeboard. It was called the Bailey-Gager Place, named for the Massachusetts shoemaker, William Bailey, who built it in…
French Hall
The construction of French Hall was begun in 1867 and completed in 1868, at the same time and in the same style as Society Hall. It was a two-story brick building, located on the west side of Tappan Square, near the south end, named in honor of…
Ellis Cottage
The former home of Professor John Millott Ellis was purchased by the College in 1906. In the summer of 1914 it was remodelled for college purposes and used as a house of residence for women. It accommodated fifteen women, who took their meals…
Ladies Hall (2nd)
The foundations for the Second Ladies Hall were laid in the spring of 1861, at the breaking out of the Civil War. Work upon the building proceeded slowly. The walls were put up and the building enclosed in 1863. At the Commencement exercises in 1865…
Allencroft
Built in 1861 by Ralph Plumb, a hero of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue, Allencroft was occupied beginning in 1865 by Dr. Dudley Allen. In 1899 the property was given to the College by Allen’s son, Dudley Peter Allen and his sister Emily Allen…