I want your room furnished better. I will send money on the eighteenth to pay your board. Tell Mrs. Vaughan I will send her the money to fit up your room by the first of the month. Then I will let her know just what I want and how I want it furnished. (Letter dated October, 15, 1875 from R. R. Church to Mollie.)
Although the Vaughans lived at the After the passage of a local bond issue of $30,000 for construction of a school for all grades, Union School was built in 1873-1874. It provided 11 classrooms, a library, and a superintendent's office. Total cost was $37,000 with an additional $3,500 spent on furniture. Union School replaced a school on North Professor Street that was sold to the college for $5,000, and later known as Cabinet Hall, the college science lab (Oberlin News-Tribune). Built of Plum Creek brick and Amherst sandstone, the building was dedicated on November 9, 1874. There were 1052 school age children in Oberlin at that time. This building was the school for all children until Prospect and Pleasant Street schools were built in 1887. Later Union School was a high school only, it was granted a high school state charter in 1903. Source: Ohio Historic Inventory. Ohio Historical Society.