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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…

The Soldiers Monument was built in 1870 at a cost of $5,000. Professor Charles H. Churchill, who taught mathematics and natural philosophy at Oberlin, was the architect. It was located on the southeast corner of College and Professor Streets. On it…

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…

The Co-education Centennial Memorial Gateway was erected in 1937 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Oberlin College's breaking of the gender barrier in higher education and its subsequent impact on the emancipation of women. On September 6,…

The Memorial Arch was erected as a memorial to the missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions who lost their lives in the Boxer uprising in China in 1900. The cornerstone of the Arch was laid October 16, 1902, and it was…