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An electrical engineer's patent fortune built Ohio State a concert hall, and the campus never even officially named it. Mershon Auditorium, at 1871 North High Street in Columbus, was dedicated on April 29, 1957 and has been operated by the adjacent Wexner Center for the Arts since 1989. The money came from Colonel Ralph D. Mershon, an 1890 electrical engineering graduate whose $7.5 million bequest funded the hall through the trustees' discretionary half of his endowment - the building known sim...