Village Housing: 186 W. College Street

Date

ca. 1890-2020

Location

186 West College Street, next to Mudd Center parking lot

Architects/Collaborators

Builder unknown

Style

Vernacular

History

Historically this house was called the Falkner-McMillian House or the Shepard House. The occupant who lived there longest was Harold E. Shephard, and his wife, Bernice, the principal of Prospect Elementary. They lived there for at least 35 years beginning in 1927. 1933 Sanborn maps describe the house as a dormitory called Shepard House, presumably for the student boarders they kept. Oberlin College housed students there in its Village Housing program until it was demolished in 2020.

Source

Ohio Historic Inventory by D.G. Henry, G. Baudoin, and M. Franck, Ohio State Historic Preservation Office, January 18, 2002. Accessed from the Oberlin Heritage Center website, June 25, 2015.