Oberlin College's Hall Auditorium in the News – August 8, 1956

The view on Monday night

Hall Auditorium is another Oberlin College landmarks that I never get tired of seeing. I like a lot of different styles of architecture, and to me, this building is perfection (at least from the outside). It looks as modern now as it did when it was built in 1953.

Here's its page on the Oberlin College website.

And it was already being touted as a tourist attraction (along with Allen Art Museum) in this article that ran in the Lorain Journal on August 8, 1956.

Like Wilder Hall (which the subject of yesterday's blog post), Hall Auditorium has been featured on many postcards over the years. Here's an ample sample, with approximate dates gleaned from eBay listings.

1955

1959

1960

This 1964 card featured Hall Auditorium on the bottom half of a "Greetings from..." design.

And they swapped places on this version.

By 1966, that tree/shrub just to the north of Hall Auditorium – so spindly in the earliest postcards – had reached enormous proportions.

It's interesting seeing the whole building in this aerial shot. That's the Oberlin Inn next door. Boy, has that area changed a lot in the intervening years.

But Hall Auditorium remains – just as modern and impressive as ever.