Oxley hall, completed in 1908, was the first student dormitory for Women at Ohio State University. Until it was constructed women students lived with families near the university or in boarding houses. One such student, Florence Kenyon Hayden graduated in architecture. As an alumnus she was recommended to the Board of Trustees by her instructor Joseph Bradford to become the architect for the first women’s dormitory. She was given the job, and also a male partner with which to work. Kenyon Hayden locked herself in her office and completed the design on her won. The building is made in the English Renaissance style with a Spanish tile roof, brick exterior and limestone trim. The building was named after the mother of University President William Oxley Thompson, whose maiden name was Oxley. The building was used as a residence hall until 1967, at which point is was leased to the University Research Foundation. It was remolded in 1989, and in 1991 became to the Department of International Affairs, which it continues to be today.