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The late Carl Bacon attended Oberlin in 1921-22, and lived at the Oberlin College Inn in the 1980s. He donated the funds for the entire landscape which surrounded Hall Auditorium and the Oberlin Inn (prior to the construction of the Lewis Gateway…

When the first modern Oberlin Inn replaced its 87-year-old predecessor in 1955, the town’s main intersection was radically transformed and “motel moderne” – a low budget adaption of the flat-roofed International Style –…

This three-story, mid-20th century dormitory was designed by Eldredge Snyder, who also designed the Jones Field House (demolished) and the Service Building. The front/east facade features a central entry, which has a rounded, projecting bay, which…

This gateway marks the entrance to the Oberlin College athletic fields as a memorial to John Herbert Nichols on the occasion of his retirement from the Athletics Department in 1955. Nichols, an Oberlin graduate from the Class of 1911, served as…

Dascomb Hall was one of two (the other being Barrows Hall) of the first modern residence halls constucted at Oberlin, in the wake of high enrollment after the Second World War. Oberlin had previously housed its students in a number of older…

Sophronia Brooks Hall Auditorium was completed in 1953, even though planning for the auditorium began around the First World War, when Charles Martin Hall willed $600,000 for 'a large auditorium' in memory of his mother, to be used by both college…

Barrows Hall, named in honor of Oberlin's fifth president, John Henry Barrows, was opened in spring of 1956 and provides dormitory accommodations for approximately 130 incoming First Years. Previously on this site stood the Botany Department gardens…