Quaker Square is the cluster of 36 industrial grain silos at the south end of downtown Akron, built by the Quaker Oats Company in 1932 and converted in the late 1970s into a hotel with — famously — round rooms inside the silos themselves. The complex passed through several owners; the Crowne Plaza hotel that occupied it from the 1990s closed in the 2010s and the University of Akron now owns the buildings and uses parts of the complex as student housing.
The exterior is the photogenic bit: the cylinders in tight rows, the brick rail building that connects them to the old railroad alignment, the salvaged industrial signage. Quaker also operated a model train ride through the interior corridors for many years.
Walk down South Broadway from Main Street; the silos rise up behind the corner. You can walk between them on the public plaza. Several of the smaller silos house the city's small Quaker Oats Museum and a snack bar with original Aunt Jemima advertising restored on the walls.