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Buildings of Our Time

Aerial View, 1965

Built in 1870, May Cottage was used as a freshman house beginning in 1938.  Two dozen members of the class entering in 1966 had rooms there.  It was demolished in the summer of 1968.

Completed in 1966, the King Memorial Building was named in honor of Oberlin's President Henry Churchill King. 

Seen here are exteriors of some of the eight Program Houses which were completed in 1968. These dormitories included Lord and Saunders (which became Afrikan Heritage House in 1972), Bailey (French House), Barnard (substance-free), Harvey (Spanish House), Kade (German House), Price (now Third World House), and Zechiel (undesignated).