Loomis Observatory Tour

18) 187 College Street

The Athenaeum  (1843)

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Built by Porter and Rice to house the college's Natural Science studies, this late Federal style building was to have been the first of a second Brick Row extending to the north.  The others were never built.  Ohio's first Phi Beta Kappa chapter was founded here in 1847.  Next Stop: Brick Row

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