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Nichols Memorial Gateway
This gateway marks the entrance to the Oberlin College athletic fields as a memorial to John Herbert Nichols on the occasion of his retirement from the Athletics Department in 1955. Nichols, an Oberlin graduate from the Class of 1911, served as…
Women's Gymnasium (2nd)
This brick structure, two stories in height, was built in 1881 located south of the Ladies Hall (Second). It was ready for use in September, 1881. The lower floor was used for gymnasium purposes, while the upper furnished dormitory accommodations for…
Men's Gymnasium (2nd)
The second Men’s Gymnasium was located on the site now occupied by Warner Center. It was a one-story frame building about 75 by 25 feet, built in the spring of 1873 at a cost of $1,000, the money for this purpose being raised by student effort.…
Warner Center for the Performing Arts
Ground was broken for Warner Gymnasium, built of Ohio Sandstone, in August, 1900, and the building was completed in the fall of 1901. It was named in honor of its donors, Dr. and Mrs. Lucien C. Warner, of New York, who provided funds for the building…
Philips (Jesse) Physical Education Center
The Jesse Philips Physical Education Center, a 115,000-square-foot facility, was designed as a modern replacement for the 1901 Warner Gymnasium (now the Warner Center for Performing Arts). Philips gymnasium is used for basketball, volleyball, and…
Knowlton (Austin E.) Athletics Complex
The new Austin E. Knowlton Athletics Complex and Dick Bailey Field, funded by an $8 million donation from the Austin E. Knowlton Foundation and private donors and dedicated in September 2014, replaced the outdated 90-year old Savage Football Stadium.…
Williams Field House (Williams Ice Rink)
The Beatty B. Williams Field House was originally a simple, open-air structure for an ice rink, with an arched aluminum roof that faces north and south. It was connected on the east with the Jones Field House, demolished in 2009. John D. Rockefeller,…
Jones Field House
The George M. Jones Field House, a war surplus building adapted for use by the College in 1947-48, was a former World War II-era U.S. Navy drill hall that was moved here from Camp Perry, Virginia. New York architect Eldredge Snyder, who supervised…
Crane Swimming Pool for Women
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…
Hales Memorial Gymnasium
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…