Benjamin Allen Hall, Lincoln University – Jefferson City MO

City:
Jefferson City, MO

Site Type:
Education and Health, Colleges and Universities

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)

Completed:
1936

Designer:
William Ittner

Quality of Information:
Moderate

Marked:
Yes

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

Benjamin Allen Hall is named after an early 20th Century Lincoln University president and was built as a dormitory by the PWA in 1936.  It served as housing for black legislators who could not find rooms at hotels in Jefferson City during legislative sessions.  A professor of sociology, Oliver Cromwell Cox, was unable to find suitable housing when he arrived to teach in 1948 and resided in the dormitory for the next 20 years.

Source notes

Jefferson City Missouri website

Site originally submitted by Charles Swaney on June 26, 2015.

Location Info


900 Chestnut St.
Jefferson City, MO 65101
Cole County

Coordinates: 38.563938, -92.169927

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