A new chiller facility at Ohio State University satisfies rigorous infrastructure demands while maintaining a delicate presence on campus. In 1908, Estelle Clark Thompson, the wife of Ohio State University’s fifth president, stood on the Columbus campus’s new football field and, with a flask only of water, christened it in the name of “clean athletics and manly sport.” The benediction worked all too well: less than two decades later— with five conference championships and crowds exceeding 50,000 spectators—OSU football was compelled to relocate to a roomier stadium alongside the Olentangy River.
