Built in 1916 as the original home to the Ohio Historical Society, Sullivant Hall will be refurbished to a LEED Silver-certified home for ACCAD, the Department of Dance, the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, the Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy, the Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise and the Barnett Theatre.

In its new form, Sullivant Hall will be a crux of arts activities, with gallery spaces for student exhibitions, a state-of-the-art performance space, collaborative research facilities, and quarters for guest artists and scholars, as well as the designated home for Barnett Scholars. ACCAD's specially design facilities will include a reconfigurable Creative Research Space & Simulation Lab, a Movement Analysis & Performance Lab, Open Collaborative Spaces, a Sonic Arts Lab and a Graphics Classroom.

The total project budget is $30 million. Ohio State alumnus and entertainment industry leader Lawrence Barnett has committed $6 million to The Ohio State University’s College of Arts and Sciences to establish the multi-disciplinary Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise and to support extensive renovations to Sullivant Hall. The Ohio State University received a gift of $1 million from Jean Schulz, the widow of Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, to support the renovation of Sullivant Hall, the future home of the world's most comprehensive academic research facility dedicated to documenting printed cartoon art. Along with her generous gift, Mrs. Schulz issued a challenge: she will provide an additional matching gift of $ 2.5 million if Ohio State raises the same amount from other sources, making the total impact of her gift $ 6 million.