- 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 websiteSite originally submitted by Charles Swaney on June 26, 2015.
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