From Oberlin Frozen Food Center to Oberlin Community Center – July 1964

We'll finish up the week here on the blog back in Lorain County, in the city that I work: Oberlin. 

Above is an article about the donation of the former Oberlin Frozen Food Center building at 80 S. Main Street by the Nord family, for use as the Oberlin Community Center. The article ran in the Journal on July 9, 1964.

The building was located immediately south of the Oberlin Post Office. You can see a little bit of it in this vintage postcard.

The building was pretty close to being ready at the time of the article below, which appeared in the Journal on October 14, 1964.

The completed building enjoyed decades of use, housing non-profit agencies until 1996. 

Courtesy Oberlin Heritage Center

After the Oberlin Community Center was in a new home, its old building at 80 S. Main Street was demolished in January 1997. Here's the "now" shot showing the property today, which is owned by the Oberlin Heritage Center and is now a green space.