The Ohio School Employees Retirement System manages retirement benefits for the people who make public schools actually function—custodians, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, secretaries. Not teachers, whose pensions come from a separate system, but the support staff without whom no school could operate.

When OSERS built new headquarters in downtown Columbus in 2001, they chose Broad Street—one of the city’s major thoroughfares—rather than retreating to a suburban office park. The location made a statement: retirement security for working-class public employees deserved dignified, visible civic architecture.

This was one of Masumi’s final commissioned works. She documented the building’s Broad Street facade, its public face along the busy corridor where thousands of Columbus commuters would pass daily. Her panoramic technique captured the full sweep of the building’s presence—how it sat within downtown Columbus, how it announced itself to the city.

The commission represents something Masumi returned to throughout her career: buildings that serve ordinary people. Not just monuments to power or wealth, but institutions—courthouses, schools, retirement systems—where civic life happens for everyone.