King Memorial Building

Date

1966-present

Location

10 North Professor Street, across from Talcott Hall and in sight of the Conservatory

Architects/Collaborators

Minoru Yamasaki and Associates, Troy, MI (architect)
The Austin Company, Cleveland (associate architects/contractors)
Jennings & Churella, New London, OH (contractors)

Style

New Formalism

History

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 razed that year to make room for the final phase of the King Building project, which incorporated the renovated Rice Hall as the third wing. Like the Conservatory, the structure is reinforced steel and quartz aggregate, with a similar design. The King Building is the main classroom building for social sciences, humanities, math, and computer science classes, and the location of offices for the departments of anthropology, classics, computer science, East Asian studies, expository writing, mathematics, philosophy, and sociology.

Source

Oberlin College Archives, College General Records, Buildings and Dedications.