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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…

The erection of Sturges Hall was begun in the fall of 1883, and completed in 1884, on the site across from Talcott Hall and next to the Soldier's Monument (1870, demolished/moved). For a number of years after the completion of Sturges Hall it was…

The King Memorial Building, named in honor of Oberlin's President Henry Churchill King, was built in several stages. The old Warner Hall, the Conservatory's home previous to Yamasaki's 1964 Conservatory building diagonally across College Street, was…