Swallow Hall - Columbia, Missouri
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BruceS
N 38° 56.744 W 092° 19.712
15S E 558188 N 4310968
Historic former Geology Building, now housing the Museum of Anthropology and the Department of Anthropology on campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia.
Waymark Code: WM3M34
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 04/18/2008
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Left from the quadrangle are the president s home, a two-story, English
Renaissance structure, and three-story SWALLOW HALL, also known as the Geology
Building. ~ from Missouri: A Guide to the "Show Me" State, 1941, Columbia
section pg. 212
Swallow Hall was built in 1893 as the Zoology and Geology Building. The
building was designed by Morris Frederick Bell. The building is named for George
Clinton Swallow, dean of agriculture and first state geologist of Missouri. The
building now houses the Museum of Anthropology and the Department of
Anthropology. Swallow Hall is located in the southeast corner of Francis
Quadrangle.