Visitors to Oberlin College in rural northern Ohio might be surprised by the caliber of architecture that graces its nearly 500-acre campus. While architectural tourists have long flocked to another heartland town—Columbus, Indiana—to see its array of built works by modern masters, fewer are familiar with Oberlin's own extensive collection of buildings by leading architects. Designs range from 19th-century Richardsonian Romanesque gems and Cass Gilbert's numerous early-20th-century campus contributions, to innovative and sometimes controversial buildings by Wallace Harrison, Hugh Stubbins, and Robert Venturi from the 1950s through the '70s. One of the more recent additions is William McDonough's Center for Environmental Studies, considered a leading example of green architecture.
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