Benjamin Allen Hall
Benjamin Allen Hall
Project type: Colleges and Universities, Education and Health
Completed: 1936
Designers: William Ittner
Quality of Information: Moderate
Marked:
Yes
Site Survival: Extant
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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.
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- Benjamin Allen Hall entrance
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- Benjamin Allen Hall plaque
Source notes
Jefferson City Missouri website
Project originally submitted by Charles Swaney on June 26, 2015.
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