Oberlin College Archives - Architecture of Oberlin

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Park Hotel/Oberlin Inn (1st)

In 1866 Henry Viets offered to erect a hotel on the site of the former village hotel (built in 1833-34 and destroyed by fire in 1866), provided the College and citizens of the town contributed $5,000 toward its erection. The Trustees of the College…

Peter B. Lewis Gateway Center

Groundbreaking for the Peter B. Lewis Gateway Center took place on June 12, 2014, and was dedicated in October 2016. The four-story complex includes the 70-suite Hotel at Oberlin, its restaurant, 1833, the Wiliam and Helen Birenbaum Innovation and…

Oberlin Inn (2nd)

When the first modern Oberlin Inn replaced its 87-year-old predecessor in 1955, the town’s main intersection was radically transformed and “motel moderne” – a low budget adaption of the flat-roofed International Style – arrived in Oberlin. It was the…