Watts Hall

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Watts Hall
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The south entrance to Watts Hall
Watts Hall
General information
Coordinates 40°00′12.5″N83°00′40.5″W / 40.003472°N 83.011250°W / 40.003472; -83.011250
Construction startedOctober 19, 1954 [1]
CompletedOctober 15, 1955 [1]
DemolishedSeptember 2022
Cost$787,374.19 [1]
Technical details
Floor count4 floors

Watts Hall was a building on the Ohio State University campus, in Columbus, Ohio, United States. [2] The building was named after Arthur S. Watts, [1] a former head of the Department of Ceramic Engineering, and former president of the American Ceramic Society. [3] It housed the OSU Department of Materials Science and Engineering [4] before being demolished in 2022 to make way for the second phase of the BMEC project. [5]

History

Watts Hall was originally constructed in 1954 to house the Chemical Abstract Service of the American Chemical Society. In 1965, the CAS moved off of Ohio State's campus to a building on Dodridge Street. After the building was vacated, it was repurposed for the Department of Ceramic Engineering. [1]

In November 2016, the courtyard adjacent to Watts Hall was the scene of a car ramming and stabbing attack that injured 10 people. Immediately after the attack, the perpetrator was fatally shot by an OSU police officer. [6]

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References

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