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Sperry Neuroscience Wing, Kettering Hall (Science Center)
The 1990 wing for Kettering Hall, incorporated in the 2002 Science Center complex, was named in honor of Oberlin alumnus Roger W. Sperry, a professor at the California Institute of Technology for more than 30 years. He shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in…
Heisman Club Field House
Dedicated on October 10, 1992, this facility was named in honor of the College athletics support group, the Heisman Club. The club takes its name from Oberlin's first football coach, the famed John Heisman who inspired college football's most…
Domes, Art Building Addition
In 1953, R. Buckminster Fuller visited the campus as the speaker for the Art Department's Baldwin Seminar Series, during which time he directed students in the erection of a temporary, geodesic dome frame. Fuller spent his life working across…
Oberlin College Bookstore
In 1991, the Oberlin Consumers Co-operative demolished the three 19th-century structures comprising the Royce Block on this site to house their book, supply and gift business. The new postmodern, steel-frame commercial structure, built in 1993, has a…
World War II Memorial Garden
Located on the south side of Finney Chapel, the World War II Memorial Garden commemorates the seventy-five Oberlin College alumni who lost their lives in the Second World War. The idea for creating such a memorial was born at a special alumni reunion…
John Frederick Oberlin Monument
Oberlin College did not erect a monument to its namesake until 1995, about a decade after Robert Sherwood Hunt, Class of 1939, began raising funds for it. After Hunt's sudden death in 1990 several of his friends saw the project to completion. Oberlin…
Venturi Addition, Allen Memorial Art Building
Designing additions to the chaste art museums of an earlier era has challenged the ingenuity and reputation of many prominent contemporary architects. "Like drawing a mustache on a Madonna" was Robert Venturi's phrase for it. Venturi and Rauch's 1976…
Conservatory Library Addition
In 1988, the Conservatory Library opened a new addition designed by architect Gunnar Birkerts that stands to the south of Warner Concert Hall. This addition nearly tripled the Library's space, although only one of the addition's two floors was fully…
Stevenson Hall
Dedicated in 1990, Stevenson is best known as the home of Oberlin's largest dining hall. To reinforce the intimate scale of the Oberlin campus, Stevenson Hall is organized to support the residential-house model of the college. The site is adjacent to…
Philips (Jesse) Physical Education Center
The Jesse Philips Physical Education Center, a 115,000-square-foot facility, was designed as a modern replacement for the 1901 Warner Gymnasium (now the Warner Center for Performing Arts). Philips gymnasium is used for basketball, volleyball, and…
Mudd Learning Center
The Seeley G. Mudd Learning Center, named to memorialize the distinguished physician and philanthropist, was completed in 1974. Designed by Warner, Burns, Toan and Lunde of New York, the Center is a five-story, 200,000 square-foot limestone structure…
Clark Bandstand
The project to build a modern bandstand was begun by President Starr and was carried initially by his enthusiasm for placing a bandstand on Tappan Square for the first time since 1907. Arthur H. "Kenny" Clark, president of Clark Brothers, Inc.,…