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Domes, Art Building Addition

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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…

Westervelt Building

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This Gothic Revival building, designed by Walter Blythe of Cleveland, was erected in 1873-74 as a school by the Village of Oberlin. In September 1926, Edmund C. Westervelt of South Bend, Indiana, presented to Oberlin College the property on South…