Houghton College Campus Facilities

Center for the Arts

The Center for the Arts was completed in September of 1999.  It houses the School of Music and contains an art gallery.  The building has 30 practice rooms, a 220-seat recital hall, choral and instrumental ensemble rehearsal rooms, a recording studio, music library, and classrooms for music history, theory, and music education.

Chamberlain Center

The Chamberlain Center, formerly known as the Academic Building, was named in honor of President Chamberlain.  This learning center was completed in 1989 and houses the departments of English/communication, foreign languages, education, business, history/political science, psychology, sociology, and religion/philosophy.  It contains thirteen classrooms, including a few rooms equipped with Internet connections at each desk.  The telelink room is wired to communicate with the West Seneca campus.

Equestrian Center

The Equestrian Center includes five barns with 41 box stalls, multiple pastures ranging from three to 17 acres, a 60’x145’ indoor arena, a 120’x240’ outdoor stadium jumping ring, and an outdoor 90’x220’ dressage arena.  The center provides accommodations for students to board their own horses.

Nielsen Physical Education Center

The Nielsen Physical Education Center contains three basketball courts, an indoor track, four racquetball courts, a 25-meter swimming pool, rock-climbing wall, and weight cage.  It was named to honor Kenneth and Doris Nielsen, Houghton retirees who gave many years of service to the college.
Houghton’s outdoor athletic facilities were renovated over the summer of 1998.  Renovations included installing an eight-lane, all-weather track, field hockey field, a lighted soccer field, a 1,200 seat grandstand, and 6 tennis courts.  Houghton also has a downhill ski slope, cross country ski trails, an initiatives ropes course, and wooded areas for hiking and camping.

Paine Center for Science

The Stephen Paine Science and Mathematics Center houses the biology, chemistry, computer science, math, and physics departments.  The building was named after Stephen Paine, president of Houghton College from 1937-1972.  At age 28, Paine was the youngest college head in the country.

Reinhold Campus Center

It contains a large lounge area, the dining hall, student life, counseling, and career development offices, college post office, Big Al’s snack shop, student organization offices, TV production studio, and college radio station.  There’s also a branch of Community Bank available for students and community use as well as an information center.  Open 8:00am to 5:00pm, the Information Center contains the college switchboard, dry cleaning services, game lending, and the directional center for college and conference needs.

Stevens Art Studio

The Stevens Art Studios contain studios for drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, woodworking, graphic design, and photography.  Individual loft spaces are available for upper-class art students.  The building features two newly-remodeled darkrooms and a state-of-the-art Macintosh computer lab.

Wesley Chapel

Able to seat 1,300, Wesley Chapel is named after John and Charles Wesley, founders of The Wesleyan Church.  The Holtkamp organ designed especially for the auditorium (with 3,153 pipes, 61 ranks and 47 stops) is one of the last organs designed by Walter Holtkamp—one of America’s foremost organ builders.  The auditorium foyer frieze carries a 150-foot mural created for the college by the last artists and former faculty member, H. Willard Ortlip.  Titled Redemption, the mural traces biblical history from creation until the end of time.

Willard J. Houghton Library

The Willard J. Houghton Library houses 225,000 volumes, over 500 print journal subscriptions, access to over 2000 full-text online journals, 14 newspapers, microfilm, and videos.  In May of 2000 extensive renovations were made to the library's' entrance and the interior.  The library is named after Houghton’s founder, Willard J Houghton.

West Seneca Campus

Houghton College's campus in Buffalo, NY (65 miles north) has conference facilities and is able to accommodate conference meetings or events.  Visit their website to find out more information.