Ohio Wesleyan University

Ohio Wesleyan University (also Wesleyan or OWU) is a private coeducational liberal arts college located in Delaware, Ohio.

General Information

Ohio Wesleyan is a liberal arts college with a population of approximately 1,900 students.

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Wesleyan's campus is located near the downtown of Delaware, Ohio and is bisected by Sandusky Street, the main north/south street through the heart of the city. The street informally divides the campus into east and west sectors, the west sector of mostly residential and adminitrative buildings and and the east one consisting of mostly academic buildings.

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University Hall (see image below), a multi-use building, is one of the most notable landmark buildings on campus.

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Wesleyan's main library is The Leon A. Beeghly Library housing a collection of more than 480,000 items, including rare books, manuscripts, art, microfilm, and federal government publications. Its Audio Visual Center includes a learning laboratory, multimedia classrooms, and individual viewing/listening rooms. The balance of the collection is in two other libraries elsewhere on campus (the science library in the Science Center and the music library in Sanborn Hall). The main Library also houses the Archives of Ohio United Methodism and is a national repository for government documents.

Related Topics:
Manuscripts - Art - Microfilm - Archives of Ohio United Methodism

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The Richard M. Ross Art Museum was acquired in 1969 and is housed in a former post office. Over the years the museum's collection has been carefully developed through purchases and gifts. The collection consists of the Ohio Wesleyan University Permanent Collection as well as rotating exhibits. The collection is particularly strong in European art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; contemporary American art; and Old Master and Japanese prints.

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Ohio Wesleyan University owns The Perkins Observatory, which is located south of the city of Delaware. The observatory houses the Perkins Telescope which in 1931, the year of its completion, was the third largest in the world only after the 100 inch at Mt. Wilson, California, and the 72 inch at Victoria, B.C., Canada. The grounds near Perkins also housed Ohio State's radio telescope, known locally as The Big Ear; the Big Ear was disassembled in 1998.

Related Topics:
The Perkins Observatory - Telescope - 1931 - Mt. Wilson, California - Victoria, B.C. - Ohio State - Radio telescope - The Big Ear - 1998

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Several of the campus buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Austin Manor, Edwards Gymnasium, Elliott Hall, Merrick Hall, Perkins Astronomical Observatory, Sanborn Hall, Slocum Hall, Sturges Hall, Stuyvesant Hall and The University Hall.

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