HIRAM, Ohio (WOIO) - A nearly 200-year-old building that once housed a church where President James A. Garfield delivered sermons as a minister now serves as a lecture hall at Hiram College.

Koritansky Hall was relocated from Mecca, Ohio to the Hiram campus in 2007 and repurposed as an educational space.

The building’s connection to Garfield made it a natural fit for the college, where the 20th president served as a student, teacher and principal.

Dr. Rob Bohrer, president of Hiram College, said Garfield also met his wife Lucretia at the school and lived there for many years.

“Garfield came here as a poor child — worked his way through school, ended up going to Williams College — and then came back,” Bohrer said.

The hall is named after John Koritansky, who has been a political scienc

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