College of Wooster

Collegiate Gothic buildings of gray vitrified brick and terra cotta trim occupy a ridge crest above Wooster, Ohio, forming the campus of the College of Wooster. After the main building burned in December 1901, trustees consulted Daniel Burnham and adopted a single architectural style for new construction. Lansing C. Holden designed Kauke, Scovel and Severance halls, and later Holden Hall, Kenarden Lodge and Severance Gymnasium. George C. Nimmons designed the neo-classical University Library and Taylor Hall, and Daniel Everett Waid designed Douglass Hall, Galpin Memorial Hall and the President's House in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The buildings are arranged around open spaces, including an oak grove and a wide lawn lined with dormitories. The campus is recognized for its coherent planning and architecture, and for its history of founding by community effort and private gifts from donors such as Henry Clay Frick and Louis H. Severance. Newer buildings are included but not considered significant.