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Self-Guided Walking Tour A Self-Guided Walking Tour of the central Columbus campus

Ohio State boasts some of the nation’s finest facilities for students, and we encourage you to explore them. Join the many students, faculty and staff who crisscross campus every day, and feel free to enter any building that interests you. Please don’t enter classrooms if a class is in session, however. You can complete this tour in about an hour and a half. Enjoy your visit!

1 The Ohio Union is the heart of 4 Mendenhall Laboratory first 8 The Oval, the open grassy area student life, featuring support for more opened in 1905 and is the current stretching from Thompson Library to than 1,200 student organizations, an home of the Department of Geological College Road, has symbolized Ohio instructional kitchen, the Archie M. Griffin Sciences. Check out the “fossil-like” State to students and visitors for Grand Ballroom, meeting rooms and event design of the floor in the main lobby. generations. At the heart of campus, spaces, Sloopy’s Diner and other eating This building also houses the Writing the Oval is a favorite place for reading, options, a retail shop, and places to study Center, where the university community relaxing and meeting friends. Legend and relax. Also located at the Ohio Union: gets help with research papers, lab has it that if you take the “Long Walk” Undergraduate Admissions Visits and reports, dissertations and resumes. from the seal at the east end to the Events, Student Life Multicultural Center, William Oxley Thompson statue on the satellite office for the alumni association 5 Hagerty Hall, home of the World west end while holding hands with your and Student Life Off-Campus and Media and Culture Center, houses loved one, you’ll be together forever. Commuter Student Services. several academic departments, foreign language laboratories and an 9 Hopkins Hall is home to fine art, 2 Hale Hall welcomes all students and international media library. industrial design and art education guests as home to the Office of Diversity classes. Visit the Hopkins Hall Gallery and Inclusion. This recently renovated 6 Page Hall opened in 1902 and is to view exhibits by faculty, students and facility is also home to one of the finest recognized by its classic architectural visiting artists. Open Monday through Black Cultural Centers in the country, elements, including grand Ionic columns. Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (4 p.m. summer). an exceptional art gallery, and several These architectural elements were student support centers and student preserved when it was renovated to 10 Bricker Hall houses the Office of retention offices. house the John Glenn College of Public the President and other administrative Affairs. Check out the John Glenn offices. The Bricker Hall Exhibit Area 3 Orton Hall was named for Ohio Museum in the lower level — there’s even (on the first and second floors) regularly State’s first president, Edward Orton, and a piece of the moon! features university collections, artifacts was built in 1893 using 40 types of Ohio and the work of university artists. building stone. Orton houses the bell 7 The Wexner Center for the Arts is tower chimes — 14 bells weighing more an internationally renowned research 11 The 18th Avenue Library, one of than 25,000 pounds — that ring at the lab and center for contemporary art, Ohio State’s 17 libraries, is open 24/7 top of every hour and each quarter hour. film, dance and other performances. and houses one of the 20 computer Stop by the Geology Library and the As members of the center, Ohio State labs on campus. Orton Geological Museum (and gift shop) students are entitled to discount tickets and other benefits. Admission to the 12 Scott Laboratory, one of the newest to check out minerals, fossils, crystals buildings on campus, is actually three and more. galleries is $8 (free for those under 18). While you’re there, stop by the Wexner buildings joined by an elevated walkway. Center shop or grab a bite at Heirloom. Home to the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Scott Lab houses several computer labs, an electronics lab and a machine shop for class projects.

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Bill Davis Baseball Stadium E. Oakland Ave.

E. Oakland Ave. East Ave. East Nicklaus Museum Headquarters

Waterman Lab. W. Oakland Ave. E. Oakland Ave. Heifer Barn Chadwick Arboretum North Ave. Adams Alden Ave. Dairy Longaberger Calf Jack Nicklaus Dr. Alumni House E. Northwood Ave. Barn Dairy Loose Housing Barn enCORE W. Northwood Ave. Williams St. Main Solar House N. Pearl St. Dairy Barn Northwood Borror Dr. -High Bldg. E. Northwood Ave. Waterman

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visit.osu.edu 2 13 University Hall is a replica of Ohio fit is easy with 12 multi-purpose courts Using the map State’s first building, which was built in for basketball, volleyball and more, 10 Buildings in red are points of interest. 1873. The tower clock, entrance and racquetball courts, an indoor running These dots indicate other areas pillars are from the original building. The track, and lots more. Students also get to explore: new structure, which opened in 1976, a splash out of the McCorkle Aquatic Campus of the College of Food, houses the Graduate School and other Pavilion, taking advantage of the pools, Agricultural and Environmental academic departments. diving well, 25-person hot tub and Sciences (CFAES) saunas. You can get a visitors pass to tour 14 The William Oxley Thompson the facility at the RPAC Welcome Desk. West of the Olentangy River, Memorial Library, Ohio State’s main north of Lane Avenue library, hosts thousands of students daily. 17 Mirror Lake Originally fed by a • Schottenstein Center/Value City After a three-year renovation, the library natural spring, Mirror Lake figured Arena – home to the basketball is now home to 1.25 million volumes of prominently in the site selection for the and hockey Buckeyes books, 230 computers, 1,800 study seats university in 1870. A two-year renovation and the Berry Cafe. Be sure to check out of the area, with a focus on enhancing • Longaberger Alumni House ­– the Campus Reading Room on the 11th sustainability and safety, was completed home to The Ohio State floor to see spectacular views of campus in 2018. Mirror Lake Hollow includes University Alumni Association and downtown Columbus. Browning Amphitheatre, Bucket and • Jack Nicklaus Golf Museum Dipper Rock, the Faculty Club and 15 • Woody Hayes Athletic Center Ohio Stadium, completed in Pomerene Hall — all great campus 1922, was the first horseshoe-shaped, landmarks. • Bill Davis Baseball Stadium doubledeck stadium in the United States. • Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium Nicknamed “The ’Shoe,” the stadium 18 The Kuhn Honors and Scholars (track and field) was renovated in 2001 and now holds House, former home of university approximately 105,000 wildly cheering presidents, is now home to the University • Buckeye Field (softball) Buckeyes. Honors and Ohio State Scholars The Gateway is located on High programs. If you look closely, you might 16 Street between 9th and Chittenden The Recreation and Physical notice that the back of the building faces avenues. Here you’ll find Barnes & Activity Center (RPAC) is a state-of- the street. The building was originally Noble – The Ohio State University the-art recreation center and one of six slated for the other side of 12th Avenue, Bookstore, the Gateway Film recreational facilities on campus. Staying but when the university decided to cross Center, food and drink, shopping, over to the current plot, the architect and convenient parking neglected to turn the plan around! Lennox Town Center, just west of the river and SR315, features shops, restaurants and a 24-screen movie theater.

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