Ellis Library Northwest Addition – Columbia MO

City:
Columbia, MO

Site Type:
Education and Health, Schools

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

Designer:
Jamieson & Spearl

Description

The Ellis library was built in 1915. The PWA added this addition in 1935. The addition to the existing Ellis Library “provide[d] urgently needed, usable, fire-proof, stack space for books, reading, seminar rooms, and other library facilities.” It is still heavily used including a large auditorium on the first floor.

Source notes

https://umcspace.missouri.edu/historic/buildings/Ellis/1935.htm

Site originally submitted by Charles Swaney on April 7, 2013.

Location Info

Ellis Library
Columbia, MO 65211

Coordinates: 38.9443654, -92.32641

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