The Child Development Center occupies a historic horse barn that underwent an extensive $2.6 million renovatation in 2000. The two-story structure was painted white with a cross gable arrangement, 4/4 double hung sash windows, wooden lub sills and elaborate round-arched hood moulds with keystone. It had five rooms with a total of 8,816 square feet. On March 3, 1980 it was nominated for the National Register of Historic Places. Following renovation, the building opened as the Ohio University Child Development Center on January 2, 2001.