{"nrhp_refnum":"80002952","name":"Urbana College Historic Buildings","other_names":["Bailey, Barclay and Oak Halls, Urbana College"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"College Way","address_restricted":false,"city":"Urbana","county":"Champaign County","state":"OH","lat":40.10266551650005,"lon":-83.76210957054334,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-10-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Three surviving nineteenth-century buildings of Urbana College at the end of College Way in Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio: Bailey Hall (1856 per the description; completed 1853 per the history), Oak Hall (1856) and Barclay Hall (1883).","why_significant":"The buildings represent the architecture of the many academies and universities that appeared in Ohio in the mid-nineteenth century, few of which survive. They are well-preserved examples at a church-related college tied to the Swedenborgian Church. The college was also one of Ohio's earliest coeducational institutions.","narrative":"Bailey, Barclay and Oak Halls are the surviving historic core of Urbana College, set in a park-like campus with large trees at the end of College Way in Urbana, Ohio. Bailey Hall is a two-story Italian Villa building with a tower, and Oak Hall is a three-story Greek Revival building. Barclay Hall, added in 1883, is joined to Bailey Hall by a brick arcade. Colonel John H. James donated land in 1849 for a Swedenborgian college, and he hired W. Russel West, architect of Ohio's statehouse, to design Bailey Hall, completed in 1853. West also designed Oak Hall, finished in 1856 with funding largely from Jonathan Young Scammon. The buildings are valued as well-preserved examples of mid-nineteenth-century Ohio academy architecture, a type few institutions retain. The college was an early coeducational school and remains linked to the Swedenborgian Church. Oak Hall was restored in 1978, and plans for Bailey and Barclay followed.","period_of_significance":"1856 and 1883","architect_builder":"W. Russel West","architectural_style":"Italian Villa (Bailey Hall); Greek Revival (Oak Hall)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by Urbana College and in educational use; Oak Hall was restored in 1978, and restoration of Bailey and Barclay Halls was planned.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.593354-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/80002952.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002952/059125c24a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002952/059125c24a-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bailey_and_Barclay_Halls,_Urbana_University.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bailey_and_Barclay_Halls,_Urbana_University.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987040","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbana_College_Historic_Buildings","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7900201"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/champaign-county/urbana-college-historic-buildings-80002952/"}