Nomination for Ohio State Normal College At Kent

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM ENTRY DATE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) MAY 3 O 1975 AND/OR HISTORIC: 11 - J.

William Stanton (Check One) - In Process - Preservation work - Transportation - Comments LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: DATE OF SURVEY: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 039 133 LOCATION Portage CLASSIFICATION Religious STATE NAME COUNTY REGISTER ACCESSIBLE Both DATE OWNERSHIP Entertainment Site CATEGORY Government Kent Ohio Ravenna Commercial Military Structure STATUS Kent State University Educational Private Yes: Agricultural Park District CODE Public Restricted Being Considered Building Unoccupied Museum Administration Building COMMON: Scientific CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Industrial Public Acquisition: Private Residence North Campus Group, The Circle, Kent State University West Main Street OWNER OF PROPERTY REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS .Federal DATA SHEET Object Ohio State Normal College at Kent TO THE PUBLIC STREET AND NUMBER: OWNER'S NAME: TITLE OF SURVEY: CITY OR TOWN: FOR NPS USE ONLY (See 10-300a) Other PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Portage County Courthouse ENTRY NUMBER Local 7.

DESCRIPTION - Deteriorated Ruin - Unaltered - Moved X Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

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idiom. They are referred to, from southwest to northeast, as Kent, Administration, Merrill, Lowry and Moulton. The oldest parts of Ly open window pattern, very much like factory construction. Then to its side elevations, i. e., a series of square three-story brick Greek temple facade, consisting of eight pilasters, an entablature This addition provided additional office space, lounges, and an enlarg- three. Lowry is down the hill from Merrill, and Moulton is below six-column wooden portico, the columns at the corners being doubled. CONDITION the most impressive frontispiece, consisting of six two-story stone pedestrian corridors which were part of the original plan.The two The hall's end wings have recessed porches on the two upper floors.

Kent, Administration and Merrill are connected by diagonal On Kent and Merrill Halls, this construction permits an unusual- the buildings are constructed of yellow brick masonry with gray flight of steps.This difference is one of the nice adjustments to away to the northwest. The siting and the relationships between the the differences in grade level. drives. Some alterations have been made to increase the usable ed stage area within the facade for the second floor auditorium. The original facade of the Administration building was identical space and to make the rear entrances more functional. The large gymnasium addition was attached to the rear of the piers.Slightly projecting end wings give ita slender E-shaped plan stone trim over a reinforced concrete structure.

unfluted Ionic columns on an arcaded brick ground story.Merrill's main entrance is a very elaborate entablature on console brackets. which form a coherent environmental and architectural entity.They are arranged in.a gentle curve on the brow of a hill which slopes and pediment, all resting on a ground-story podium.The inter-column spaces are blind. The pediment has prominent akroteria.Over the of the buildings are designed in a simplified Neo-Classic Revival the classic orders are applied. Of all the buildings Kent Hall has Administration building in 1923-l924. Various renovations and improve- encased in gray stone, forming a more "correctly"proportioned ments were made on Lowry Hall in 19l4 and Merrill Hall in 1930. (Check One) X Excellent - Good - Fair - Unexposed portico balances Kent's, but it stands on a podium with a wide engaged pilasters.

In 1929-1931 the front third of the building was buildings to the northeast are somewhat less pretentious than these buildings are important aspects of the

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significance of the group. All This is a group of five early twentieth century college buildings UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY 2. Location NORTH CAMPUS GROUP, THE CIRCLE, KENT STATE UNIVE RSITY OHIO STATE NORMAL COLLEGE AT KENT APR 3 0 1975 1. Kent Hall 2. Administration 1914 Scale: 1" = 300' 6. Rockwell Hall (non-eligible) GP 0 921-724 North DATE COUNTY Portage STATE NATIONAL Ohio REGISTER RECEIVED 1913 East Main Street (Continuation Sheet) The Hill ENTRY NUMBER south and east of Hilltop Drive comprise approximately Form 10-300a NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (Number all entries) 9.5 acres. The five buildings plus a zone 3oo feet wide to the (July 1969) MAY S 0 1978.

South Lincoln Street - Pre-Columbian| M 15th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (It Applicable and Known) - Urban Planning - Transportation along the top of the curving hill, although they are basically plain Ohio, from which the state university later expanded. Kent, founder of the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad and namesake Kent's first president, John McGilvrey, was the first to intro- fail" grading system. In 1929 the school adopted the name of Kent State College, and in 1938 it became Kent State University.

1912-1931 losophy Conservation SIGNIFICANCE Aboriginal Architecture Theater Science Military Prehistoric (continued) Art Education Landscape Literature itarian Communications Architect George Francis Hammond was selected and charged Music Sculpture century.Several private normal colleges developed from the academies Agriculture Social/Human- good proportions, their relationships to one another and their siting Industry Although the first normal school in the country was founded in made by landscape architect Albert D.Taylor of Boston.Hammond Invention Religion/Phi- Commerce Zanesville and the McKinley High School in Canton.The contractor utilitarian structures with a nominal homage to the Neo-Classic Rev- colleges and academies, especially in the Midwest where there were few notable examples of public education throughout the nineteenth the Hollenden Hotel in Cleveland, the United States Post Office in STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

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a Roman dome which was never realized. A topographical survey was (1855-1938) was a Cleveland architect who studied at the Massachusetts ival style: In addition, Kent was the first state normal college in of the city. a teacher training school in northeastern Ohio and.made a $l50,000 duce the concept of extension work in Ohio.With the first full acad- Engineering The five oldest buildings of Kent State University constitute a acres in the city of Kent for the campus. Kent was the son of Marvin Institute of Technology, opened his own office in Boston in 1884, and Massachusetts in 1839,teacher training was left largely to the private for the Kent buildings was Robert H.Evans & Company of Columbus.

moved to Cleveland around 190o.Other works of his in Ohio included Political Other (Specify) PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) appropriation for the first two buildings.William S. Kent donated 53 significant and distinguishable group.This is due largely to their in Ohio in the 1870s and 1880s. In 1910 the Ohio Legislature authorized with preparing a master campus plan in 19ll.The plan envisioneda

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MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Phillip R. Shriver, The Years of Youth: Kent State University, 1910- xi-xv, 223-234, 259-266. Portage County Historical Society, Portage Heritage (Ravenna, 1957), 337, 501-502.

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINI OF A PHOPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES 17 470 800 4555 440 APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: FORM PREPARED BY STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- I hereby certify that this property is included in the tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation level of significance of this nomination is:' . ATTEST: Keeper of The National Regis * U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-147/1442 3-i 039 January National Degrees UTM LONGITUDE Name Seconds LATITUDE ORGANIZATION Cleveland STATE COUNTY CODE Minutes Local Title CORNER Ohio Degrees Minutes Seconds Western Reserve Historical Society 10825 East Boulevard 9.5 Acres NAME AND TITLE: National Register. T2. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION Date 1960 (Kent, 1960), 31-32, 36-37, 43, 48-49, 53, 57-58, 125. Sarah Lehr Kennedy, N. H. Lehr and His School (Ada, Ohio, 1938), The Chestnut Burr Yearbook (Kent, 1921, 1924, 1926).

Talbot Hamlin, Greek Revival Architecture in America (Oxford, 1944), ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES SHPO Eric Johannesen, Preservationist $30-25 Form 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY orium, library and office building (Administration) was passed, and they were completed in 1914. In 1915 a dormitory, Moulton Hall, was author- The layout of the group, with a central building flanked by second- "facade" syndrome, as the rear elevations of the buildings are plain, without style, utilitarian and unrelated as a group.

NATIONAL GP0 921-724 Ohio Portage STATE COUNTY DATE RECEIVED REGISTER this strict composition a pleasing variety which raises the architectural (Continuation Sheet) Ohio State Normal College at Kent parts.However, the overall design is also a classic example of the effectiveness of the entire group far above that of any of its individual Amherst College in Massachusetts in 182l-l827,as well as the preced- ents of the Neo-Classic Revival.The crescent-shaped hill at Kent gives Construction began in March 19l2.Merrill and Lowry Halls were (Number all entries) ENTRY NUMBER riation for an agriculture and science building(Kent Hall) and an audit- both built from the original appropriation of $l50,000.Because of state ized, and it was completed in 1917.

wills Gymnasium was erected HAY301875 ary ones "in line" is directly related to the nineteenth century college row composition which Talbot Hamlin says was first conceived at behind Administration in 1923-1924,and the new facade was added in 1931 codes,the buildings were required tobe two stories in height,but REF 7500 1526 Not a district- REVIEW UNIT CHIEF BRANCH CHIEF United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 7 OTHER Inventory KEEPER CONTROL ARCHEOLOGIST HAER Review Federal Register Entry National Register Write-up HISTORIAN Cole Working Number 4. 30. 75. 8/5 CONF.

5-12-75 State Dhio 7=1-7 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Entered MAY 3 0 1975 IN T:2106-74 Maps TECHNICAL Photos Portage 5-5-75 5.1.75 LEBOVICH Coufereues Geographical Data -- Acreage: Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to on the National Register staff, telephone - Chief, Branch of Registration United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 8 Description: Date: Certification: Other: Bibliography: Photographic Coverage: Map Coverage: Statement of Significance: IS RESUBMITTED. The attached National Register Inventory-Nomination form is being returned to your office for Verbal Boundary Description: Thank you for your attention to the above items. INT:2105 Form No. 10-301a (Pev.

10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM DATE ENTERED SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMIS AND/OR COMMON COUNTY Portage Yeat Kent VICINITY OF CITY. TOWN PHOTO REFERENCE DATE OF PHOTO NEGATIVE FILED AT Western Reserve Historical Society PHOTO NO DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION. ETC. IF DISTRICT, GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 1975 IDENTIFICATION LOCATION HISTORIC Administration facade with Merrill in background, looking east. STATE Ohio NAME Ohio State Normal College at Kent RECEIVED APR 3 0 1975 North Campus Group, The Circle, Kent State University Form No. 10-301a (Pev.

10-7)) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM DATE ENTERED Ohio State Normal College at Kent AND/OR COMMON CITY. TOWN VICINITY OF COUNTY Portage PHOTO REFERENCE DATE OF PHOTO DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION, ETC. IF DISTRICT, GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET 1975 LOCATION IDENTIFICATION Kent HISTORIC NAME STATE Ohio North Campus Group, The Circle, Kent State University PHOTO NO. SEE INSTRUCTIONSIN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS APR 3 0 1975 MAY 3 0 TYPE ALL ENTRIES ENCLOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH RECEIVED Form No. 10-301a (Pev. 10-7%) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES APR 3 C 1975 PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM DATE ENTERED MAY 3 O 1975 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS AND/OR COMMON CITY.

TOWN -VICINITY OF COUNTY Portage PHOTO REFERENCE DATE OF PHOTO DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION, ETC. IF DISTRICT. GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET PHOTO NO 1975 Kent IDENTIFICATION HISTORIC LOCATION North Campus Group, The Circle, Kent State University RECEIVED NAME STATE Ohio Ohio State Normal College at Kent FOR NPS USE ONLY NEGATIVE FILED AT Western Reserve Historical Society from steps of Merrill, looking northeast. Form No. 10-301a (Pev. 10-74) FOR NPS USE ONLY UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE APR 3 0 1975 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES MAY 3 Q 1975 PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM DATE ENTERED Ohio State Normal College at Kent COUNTY Portage VICINITY OF CITY. TOWN PHOTO REFERENCE DATE OF PHOTO NEGATIVE FILED AT Western Reserve Historical Society PHOTO NO DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION, ETC.

IF DISTRICT, GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 1975 LOCATION Kent IDENTIFICATION HISTORIC RECEIVED NAME STATE Ohio AND/OR COMMON G Kent Halls. North Campus Group, The Circle, Kent State University SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS Form No. 10-301a (Pev. 10-7%) FOR NPS USE ONLY UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE APR 3 C 1975 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES MAY 3 0 1975 PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM DATE ENTERED SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS Ohio State Normal College at Kent AND/OR COMMON North Campus Group, The Circle, Kent State University COUNTY Portage _VICINITY OF CITY. TOWN PHOTO REFERENCE DATE OF PHOTO PHOTO NO DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. IF DISTRICT, GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET Drive behind Lowry Hall, looking north.

PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 1975 LOCATION Kent IDENTIFICATION HISTORIC RECEIVED PHOTO CREDIT Eric Johannesen STATE Ohio NAME NEGATIVE FILED AT TYPE ALL ENTRIES ENCLOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH Western Reserve Historical Society Form No. 10-301a (Pev. 10-7%) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE APR 3 0 1975 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM MAY 3 0 1976 DATE ENTERED SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS AND/OR COMMON COUNTY Portage VICINITY OF CITY. TOWN PHOTO REFERENCE DATE OF PHOTO PHOTO NO DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION. ETC.

IF DISTRICT, GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET Merrill Hall, looking 1975 LOCATION Kent IDENTIFICATION HISTORIC RECEIVED NAME North Campus Group, The Circle, Kent State University Ohio State Normal College at Kent STATE Ohio NEGATIVE FILED AT Western Reserve Historical Society PROPERTY OF THE NATORAL REGISTER Form No. 10-301a (Pev. 10-7%) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE APR 3 0 1975 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM DATE ENTERED AND/OR COMMON North Campus Group, The Circle, Kent State University CITY. TOWN COUNTY Portage _VICINITY OF PHOTO REFERENCE DATE OF PHOTO NEGATIVE FILED AT DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION. ETC. IF DISTRICT, GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET PHOTO NO Moulton Hall, looking north.

PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 1975 LOCATION Kent IDENTIFICATION Western Reserve Historical Society HISTORIC STATE Ohio RECEIVED NAME PHOTO CREDIT Eric Johannesen Ohio State Normal College at Kent SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS MAY 3 0 1975 Form No. 10-301a (Pev. 10-7%) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE APR 3 o 1975 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM MAY 3 0 1975 Olio State Normal College at Kent AND/OR COMMON North Campus Group, The Circle, Kent State University CITY. TOWN VICINITY OF COUNTY Portage PHOTO REFERENCE DATE OF PHOTO DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION. ETC. IF DISTRICT. GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET PHOTO NO 1975 IDENTIFICATION Kent RECEIVED HISTORIC LOCATION Eric Johannesen STATE Ohio NAME Lowry Hall, looking east.

PHOTO CREDIT DATE ENTERED PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS Form No. 10-301a (Pev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE APR 3 0 1975 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM MAY 3 0 1975 DATE ENTERED Ohio State Normal College at Kent AND/OR COMMON North Campus Group, The Circle, Kent State University CITY. TOWN VICINITY OF COUNTY Portage PHOTO REFERENCE DATE OF PHOTO NEGATIVE FILED AT Western Reserve Historical Society DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION. ETC. IF DISTRICT, GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET PHOTO NO Administration & Kent Hall, looking east. 1975 Kent HISTORIC IDENTIFICATION LOCATION RECEIVED NAME STATE Ohio SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REG.CTER TYPE ALL ENTRIES ENCLOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH Form No.

10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Rev. 7-72 FOR NPS USE ONLY U. S. G. S. Kent Quadrangle TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference. * U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-148/1441 3-l 039 1970 133 Portage Kent Ohio COUNTY DATE NAME STATE RECEIVED REQUIREMENTS CODE NATIONAL REGISTER 1:24,000 SCALE: MAP REFERENCE PROPERTY MAP FORM SOURCE: AND/OR HISTORIC: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with map) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE STREET AND NUM BER: LOCATION CITY OR TOWN: Hilltop Drive, Kent State University Campus Ohio State Normal College at Kent 5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) W0 KENT QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Normal College GEOLOGICAL SURVEY KENT, OHIO APR 30 1975 41° 09' 06" UNITED STATES North Campus Group, Ohio State 17 470 800 4555 440 OHIO-PORTAGE CO. RECEIVED MAY 8 O 1975 & Povez Station Hon. J.

Willltem Stanton The Ohio Historical Society Location STATE 6/3/75 MMott/bsh Kent Name Pottage County Date Entered Acting Director ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Also Notified Regional Director, Midwest Region The Miami County Court House State Historie Preservation Officer Interstate 7l at l7th Avenue Hon. John H. Glenn, Jr. Hon. Tennyson Guyer @OTHER NAMES: Rent State University; 3 date of entry: 7 county code: 6 LOCATION street & number vicinity of 12)SOURCE of NOMINATION - FEDERAL 15 ACREAGE 9 . 5 C YES.

NAME 1 CONDITION -deteriorated @original site 17) teatures: Omoved OO NOT INTACT-O Ounexposed - Unknown 50 UNKNOWN -6 Dunexcavated 2O NOT APPLICABLE-7 - No Access I AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -RECREATION -28 CLAIMS: explain C LAW - 16 C RELIGION-22 CARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS-7 -EXPLORATION-12 - LITERATURE -17 - SCIENCE- 23 'oldest' O C AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION -8 C HEALTH - 27 - MILITARY - 18 M ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS-9 - INDUSTRY- 13 - MUSIC- 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL- 30 'only' D DART-5 CR EDUCATION-10 C INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY -20 C TRANSPORTATION -25 3 functions 2dates of initial construction: Barchitectural stylo(s): D landscape architect / garden designer: @ artist: Albert D. Taylor of Boston EVENTS : John McGilvrey, Ist president of Kent 36 NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP Kent,"founder of the Atlantic and Great Western RR and namesake of the city.

Ireviewers initiais. _date. TIF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE ETHNIC ENGINEERING-11 ASSOCIATION 133 GROUP ENTERTAINMENT-26 SETTLEMENT-29 midwest WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: historic events: CURRENTLY: Daltered 4/24/78 PRIVATE ORGANIZATION INSTITUTIONAL: Nucleus of college campus,.includes5 Neo-Classical Revival buildings of brick,stone, and reinforced concrete SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 master builder: URBAN PLANNING-31 ADMINISTRATOR: LOCAL SACCESS NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET RR and namesake of city of Kent and base from which the state university system developed; built on land donated by William Kent, son of Marvin SAVED?YES GNPS REGION: Dexcellent DSTATE WITHIN NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK? "first' Oruins Ogood NAME as it appears on federal register: 1 interior decorator: Robert H.

Evans & Co.,Columbu Oltio sen ZONOT APPLICABLE - 9 Hammond engineer: CONGRESS.DISTRICT William Kent, donated land on which school was built, son of Marvin Kent, a founder of Atlantic and Great Western Dreconstructed George F. who prepared form? give role & date 3artisan: IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT? yesno portaae