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The Co-education Centennial Memorial Gateway was erected in 1937 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Oberlin College's breaking of the gender barrier in higher education and its subsequent impact on the emancipation of women. On September 6,…

Noah Hall was named in honor of Andrew Hale Noah of Akron, Ohio, for seven years a member of the Board of Trustees, who contributed significant funds towards its construction. Ground was broken for its construction February 16, 1932, and the hall was…

The Crane Swimming Pool for Women, the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop Murray Crane, Jr., and their daughter, Barbara, of Dalton, Mass., stands at the entrance to Galpin Field. The architect was the firm of Walker and Weeks of Cleveland. Ground was…

The white Carrera marble, red porphyry and bronze fountain in front of the Allen Memorial Art Museum is a memorial to Katharine Wright Haskell by her husband, Henry "Harry" J. Haskell. Both Katharine and Harry were students at Oberlin; Katharine…

The funds for Hales Memorial Gymnasium were given by G. Willard Hales (OC 1900) in memory of his mother, Lina Rosa Hales. It was the first modern gymnasium for women at Oberlin, succeeding several makeshift structures that served multiple purposes…

The quadrangle complex, designed by Cass Gilbert and his son, and opened in 1931, was built for the College's Graduate School of Theology, closed in 1965. The complex, comprising Bosworth Hall, Shipherd Hall, and Fairchild Chapel, was designed to…