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King Memorial Building

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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…

Conservatory of Music

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Oberlin's Warner Hall, the Conservatory's building from 1884, was no longer adequate at the beginning of the 1960s. The college chose Minoru Yamasaki to design a new complex, including a library, for the music school. The resulting building in…