Originally where the Fenn Gym and The Ellwood H. Fisher Swimming Pool were located, they were removed during the 2005 renovation.

[4] Fenn started by offering night classes in the 1930s in engineering and its model was to specialize in low cost higher education.

[5] Fenn's first president was Dr. Cecil V. Thomas who was a well known academician and Ohio educator.

In 1932, Fenn added business classes to the growing roster of student programs.

This meant that Fenn was only the third college in the United States to have a skyscraper on its academic campus (the others being the University of Pittsburgh and Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia) and further gave Fenn a much more coveted Euclid Avenue downtown address.