Baldwin-Wallace College South Campus Historic District

This four-block district in Berea, Ohio, forms the south campus of Baldwin-Wallace College. It is centered on Seminary Street and incorporates the former German Wallace College grounds, which grew up around the 1830s Lyceum Village Square. The district contains ten contributing buildings and one contributing structure, plus four buildings previously listed, built mostly of Berea sandstone and brick between 1866 and 1958. Styles include Gothic Revival, Richardsonian Romanesque, High Victorian Gothic and Colonial Revival. Examples are Marting Hall, the 1895-96 Richardsonian Romanesque classroom building, the 1913-14 sandstone gymnasium, and a row of Beech Street dormitories. The campus did not follow a formal master plan. Instead, donors who owned sandstone quarries funded buildings on donated land, and Berea sandstone became the unifying material. Extending Seminary Street linked the German Wallace College campus with Baldwin University's campus. Most buildings continue to serve educational and residential purposes today.