Baldwin-Wallace College North Campus Historic District

Baldwin-Wallace College's North Campus in Berea, Ohio, occupies a single block bounded by East Bagley Road, Front Street, East Fifth Avenue and Beech Street. Fourteen buildings and two sites, the North Quad and the Fullmer Arboretum, surround an open green space. Construction began in 1891 with Wheeler Hall, also called Recitation Hall, after Baldwin University left its original campus near the sandstone quarries because of noise and structural undermining. Ladies Hall, built in 1883, was taken apart stone by stone and rebuilt on the new site in 1905 as Carnegie Science Hall. The Philura Gould Baldwin Memorial Library, finished in 1894, is a Richardsonian Romanesque landmark. Later additions include Tudor Revival and Georgian Revival buildings of the 1920s and 1930s and mid-century halls up to 1966. The buildings are mostly Berea sandstone and brick, and they continue to serve as classrooms, offices, a library and student housing. The district records the move and growth of the university and college.