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Oberlin: Conservatory of Music complex Conservatory of Music complex, designed by Minoru Yamasaki, at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.

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Oberlin, city, Lorain county, northern Ohio, U.S., about 35 miles (56 km) west-southwest of Cleveland. In 1833 John J. Shipherd, a Presbyterian minister, and Philo P. Stewart, a former missionary to the Choctaw people, founded the community and established the Oberlin Collegiate Institute (1833; designated a college in 1850) to train ministers and teachers for the West. The name was chosen to honour Johann Friedrich Oberlin, an Alsatian pastor and philanthropist. In 1886 Charles Martin...

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