Kenyon Campus
Timeless Beauty Endures Here
Kenyon's beautiful 1,000-acre campus is in Gambier, Ohio, 45 miles from the state's capital, Columbus. The campus includes a 500-acre nature preserve.
The Kenyon Campus
If we had to define Kenyon's genius loci — the spirit of the place — one thing we'd note is the way modern fits with traditional. Timeless beauty endures here. But we are always responding to new needs and adopting new technologies. From the science quad to the athletic center, facilities are state-of-the-art. And they're often architecturally stunning. Century-old stone and sleek contemporary glass harmonize on a campus that many feel is one of the nation's most beautiful.
A few of Kenyon's noteworthy facilities:
Art
The Gund Gallery, opened in 2011, is home to the Department of Art History and to more than 6,000 square feet of exhibition space. It is a busy hub with flexible space that showcases leading contemporary artists—and Kenyon's senior art majors.
Horvitz Hall, which opened in 2012, is filled with light, spacious studios, and superb technology for media ranging from drawing and painting to digital and video art.
Dining: Peirce Hall
Rising grandly in the center of campus, Peirce is home to one of Kenyon's signature spaces, the Great Hall, where students take their meals amid wood paneling, lofty carved rafters, and stained-glass windows depicting scenes from literary classics. A complete renovation has enlarged the kitchen serving area and allowed for a variety of food stations and more extensive use of local farm products.
Fitness: The Kenyon Athletic Center
Huge weight and fitness room. Light-filled indoor track. Tennis courts, squash courts, racquetball courts. Competition arena, recreational gym, mirrored rooms for dance and fitness classes. A pool befitting a national dynasty. With its top-flight facilities and spectacular architecture, "the KAC" has become a favorite place to work out, and hang out, since it opened in 2006. Varsity teams, intramurals, and individuals all use the KAC, often at the same time. It's that big.
Music
The center of musical activity on campus is Rosse Hall, a Greek Revival landmark that has been renovated to house a 650-seat concert hall. The lower level features practice and private-lesson rooms. Attached to Rosse is Storer Hall, with a sleek 135-seat recital hall, a dramatic reception area, rehearsal facilities, a seminar room, and a computer-equipped classroom.
Nature Preserve: Brown Family Environmental Center
This 500-acre nature preserve bordering the Kokosing River includes woodland, prairie, and wetland habitats, as well as gardens. Biology classes and Summer Science Scholars conduct research here. Others come to ramble along the six miles of hiking trails or to participate in bird-watching walks, nature talks, campfires, and star-gazing sessions.
Science
Organized in a handsome quadrangle, our science buildings provide spacious, well-equipped labs for classes and student research, along with modern, technology-rich lecture halls. The buildings were designed to serve Kenyon's strengths: small classes, hands-on learning, access to sophisticated instruments, and collaboration among students and professors.
Theater and Dance
Faculty-directed productions in drama and dance take place in Bolton Theater, a modern 389-seat theater with a thrust stage that lends itself to a variety of configurations. Bolton shares ample backstage and technical facilities with the neighboring Hill Theater, a traditional proscenium stage that seats 186 and hosts a busy schedule of student productions.