An even better example and more recent is Toledo. The campus along Bancroft is downright spectacular. To the south is a jumble, especially once you get south of the "river."

Since a couple of posters mentioned high schools (example:  St.  Ignatius in Cleveland) I would have to say by far the prettiest high school campus in Ohio that I have seen is Western Reserve Academy in Hudson.

 

While I am biased, hands down prettiest overall campus in Ohio is Miami.  Kenyon, Oberlin and OU also very nice.

I suggest a new thread is started to talk about nicest/prettiest high school campus in Ohio. 

I wouldn't say it's the prettiest in Ohio, but I would like to give Baldwin-Wallace its due.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OU hands down.  I have pictures.  But first, dinner.

so has this thread turned into a pictures spamming fest?

An even better example and more recent is Toledo. The campus along Bancroft is downright spectacular. To the south is a jumble, especially once you get south of the "river."

 

and then there's the ut health science campus, sitting in a vast parking lot, resembling community college.  the ravine in the middle of campus is ok i suppose. 

 

^in its defense, very few hospitals do well integrating to their surroundings.

Since a couple of posters mentioned high schools (example:  St.  Ignatius in Cleveland) I would have to say by far the prettiest high school campus in Ohio that I have seen is Western Reserve Academy in Hudson.

 

While I am biased, hands down prettiest overall campus in Ohio is Miami.  Kenyon, Oberlin and OU also very nice.

 

I disagree with you about Miami, but I agree with you about WRA.

Ah, the beautiful Raymon Mulford Library at MCO/MUO/UTHSC:

 

 

Another monument to Brutalism brought to us by Don Hisaka, who also created the soon-to-be-demolished CSU University Center.  I always thought the library looked like a concrete Lego version of a Star Wars Imperial Walker looming over the adjacent ravine, threatening to attack the parking lot.

Looks like Marion's Municipal Building.

threatening to attack the parking lot.  I love it

 

And let's not forget St. Charles in Bexley.  That is also a nice "campus-like" setting with a beautiful building.

 

Oh, and I did visit Kenyon, but my brother, friend and I all agreed unanimously that Dennison is still the best. The layout on top of a hill and variety of architecture give it the edge. Kenyon has lots of nice stone buildings, but it just didn't blow me away like I expected. The interiors of the buildings are probably superior. I felt like Harry Potter was going to walk in any second.

Jake, where is the obligatory photo of C-Dawg with his mouth open and full of white stuff?

 

Uh...

 

I'm going to put my new vote in on St. Ignatius High School. That is truly beautiful and I have yet to see a high school that has withstood the test of time for that long and remain so nice.

 

I would say Ironton High School in southern Ohio as being nice, being on the National Historic Register and all, but it's being demoed.

 

Please...enough with the high schools already!

Again, Ohio University, hands down. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Doesn't help your case ;).

^Ha- I was thinking the same thing. Definitely some awesome old stuff and great landscape, but also some real generic post war clunkers.

 

Who's gonna post some shots of Kenyon and Dennison?

I have old, horrific photos that I'm too embarrased to post...so...Inkaelin, get on with it!

I have no clue where Kenyon is. I will be near Granville this weekend, incidentally.

 

Comparing OU and Miami, it might be fair to say that OU has a more interesting physical environment (being in Appalachia and all) while Miami has more consistent architecture/quads.

Gambier, not-too-far north of Granville.

Gambier, OH

 

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=gambier,+oh&ie=UTF8&ll=40.377871,-82.39789&spn=7.664404,14.80957&z=6&om=1

I've stumbled past all of those buildings that SlipperyFish posted.

I'm going to throw OU-Chillicothe out there.

 

 

Dunno if OU-C's gonna get any backers with a surface lot pic.

^Thats my point.

^So why nominate it in the prettiest campus in Ohio thread?

So much for a little levity.

I just heard a "thud".  Ink, have any pics of Raymond Walters College?  (aka "Ray's Place")

Why do they call it Miami University? Didn't the Shawnee occupy that territory? Miami was in the Maumee Valley and Indiana. I guess there's the river.

David, did you just answer your own question in the same post?

So much for a little levity.

 

I appreciated it.

David, did you just answer your own question in the same post?

I thought it was much farther north. Forget we ever had this conversation!

David, did you just answer your own question in the same post?

I thought it was much farther north. Forget we ever had this conversation!

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I think the Miami were in the area for a time which accounts for the names of the Great Miami and Little Miami...and thus, the Miami Valley, Miamisburg, New Miami, Miami Town, etc.

 

So much for a little levity.

 

I appreciated it.

 

:-)

Throw in the Maumee which is extrapolated from the Miami-Erie . . .

I went to an Indian pow wow over the summer (in Hilliard of all places). I was disappointed by the lack of peace pipes. I wonder if they would have said anything if I brought my hookah. The peace pipe is only to be used at ceremonies, as it is sacred. But it WAS memorial day. They had the POW-MIA flags and such. There wasn't a SINGLE piece of litter on the ground and trash recepticles were everywhere. I think everyone was afraid an indian would look back and start crying. Ironically, half of the "Indians" in the pow wow were black and white.

Why do they call it Miami University? Didn't the Shawnee occupy that territory? Miami was in the Maumee Valley and Indiana. I guess there's the river.

 

Also, these tribes were semi-nomadic (some more than others).  The Shawnee in particular, ranged throughout the eastern woodlands.  River names in the south such as Suwanee, Swaneee and Shawanoe all indicate a Shawnee presence.  (the Algonkian language group that extended throughout the eastern woodlands was often mutually intelligible between tribal varients, similar to the various languages of of Polynesia).  I'm not quite sure how the city of Miami got it's name, though I believe the river from whence its name arose was originally called the Miama.

^If I recall correctly (may be wrong), but one of the original developers (founders) of Miami, Florida was from the Ohio Miami Valley and that is how it got the name.

From wikipedia:

 

It should be noted that the city is not named for the Miami tribe of Ohio, but rather the Mayaimi tribe of Florida.

 

However, the founding of the city of Miami does have a strong Ohio connection: (also wikipedia)

 

As late as the 1890s, only a handful of families made their homes in Miami. Many of the settlers were homesteaders, attracted to the area by offers of 160 acres (0.6 km²) of free land by the US federal government. Among the homesteaders was William Brickell, known as the Father of Miami, who came from Cleveland, Ohio in 1871. He held a trading post and post office at the mouth of the Miami River and bought some land there.

 

In 1891, a wealthy Cleveland woman named Julia Tuttle purchased an enormous citrus plantation in the Miami area. Tuttle's husband, Frederick Tuttle, had died in 1886, and she decided to move to South Florida due to the "delicate health" of her children. She and William Brickell tried to get railroad magnate Henry Flagler to expand his rail line, the Florida East Coast Railroad, southward to the area, but he initially declined.

 

However, in the winter of 1894, Florida was struck by bad weather that destroyed virtually the entire citrus crop in the northern half of the state. A few months later on the night of February 7, 1895, Florida was hit by another freeze. That freeze wiped out the remaining crops and the new trees. Unlike the rest of the state, Miami was unaffected, and Tuttle's citrus became the only citrus on the market that year. Tuttle wrote to Flagler again, persuading him to visit the area and to see it for himself, and sent him some of the flowers to show that the area escaped the frost. Flagler did so, and concluded at the end of his first day that the area was ripe for expansion. He made the decision to extend his railroad to Miami and build a resort hotel.  On October 24, 1895, the contract agreed upon by Flagler and Tuttle was approved.

 

On February 1, 1896, Tuttle fulfilled the first part of her agreement with Flagler by signing two deeds to transfer land for his hotel and the 100 acres (0.4 km²) of land near the hotel site to him.  On April 7, 1896, the railroad tracks finally reached Miami, and the first train arrived on April 13. It was a special, unscheduled train, and Flagler was on board. The train returned to St. Augustine later that night. The first regularly scheduled train arrived on the night of April 15. The first week of train service provided only for freight trains, and passenger service did not begin until a week later, on April 22.

 

On July 28, 1896, the incorporation meeting to make Miami a city took place.  After ensuring that the required number of voters was present, the motion was made to incorporate and organize a city government under the corporate name of "The City of Miami," with the boundaries as proposed. John Reilly, who headed Flagler's Fort Dallas land company, was the first elected mayor.  Initially, most residents wanted to name the city "Flagler". However, Henry Flagler was adamant that new city would not be named after himself. So on July 28, 1896, the City of Miami was incorporated with 502 voters, including 100 registered black voters.[13]

 

So they have flagler beach instead.

Flagler beach sucks. So does Daytona. No amentities, little walkability. Those beachtowns suck minus St. Augustine and Miami. Flagler beach is trash!

Here's Kenyon:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and downtown Gambier as a bonus:

 

 

 

^If I recall correctly (may be wrong), but one of the original developers (founders) of Miami, Florida was from the Ohio Miami Valley and that is how it got the name.

 

Yes, there is a Brickell Avenue historical photo timeline that mentions someting to that affect.  I noticed that when I was last in miami

^^Thanks Columbusite!  Looks like a really great campus.  So who's going to post Dennison?

will columbusite's pics finally put a fork in this thread? stay tuned!