The Post Athens history

Berry died at the age of 76 in 1931.

“They resurfaced the outside and tried to rent it as a hotel, but it declined,” Hollow said. “In 1961, the university bought it as a dormitory.”

In 1973, Athens City Council wanted to tear down the Berry Hotel to make it a parking lot.

Ford-Ahmed believes there are many topics of historical importance, one being the destruction of the nationally renowned Berry Hotel in 1974.

In 1995, Phi Kappa Theta moved into the Berry House.

Marcquis Parham, the interim assistant director of the Career and Leadership Development Center, came to Ohio University in 2002 as a football player.

The group working to turn it into these things is The Mount Zion Baptist Church Preservation Society. It was launched as a non-profit in 2013, and it formed a board to help direct the mission and vision of renovating and restoring the historical monument.

In 2015, the paper announced it would be moving to a digital-first model.

Ohio University alumna @universityhairbraider on Instagram is a 2019 graduate who learned to braid after having to wear headscarves and other protective hairstyles to avoid the hassle of traveling all the way to Columbus for services during her time at OU.