Missouri State Teachers Association - Columbia, Missouri
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BruceS
N 38° 56.828 W 092° 19.857
15S E 557977 N 4311122
Historic headquarters building for the Missouri Teachers Association in Columbia, Missouri.
Waymark Code: WM3KAQ
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 04/15/2008
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The Missouri State Teachers Association Headquarters, located on a terraced
landscaped lot and surrounded by buildings and properties of the University of
Missouri - Columbia Campus, is a two story brick building with partial basement
and full attic, constructed along a rectangular plan in the Jacobethan Revival
style over reinforced concrete foundations. The building measures approximately
75" along its north and south sides and 81 1 ' along the east and west. It is
capped with a steep gabled roof faced with red tiles which features projecting
eaves above exposed rafters. Gable ends are trimmed with heavy stone coping and
topped with clustered brick chimney pots. The walls of the original building are
of brick laid in a variant of garden wall crossbond with a header alternating
with three stretchers each header being centered below the central stretcher of
the row above.
The Missouri State Teachers Association Headquarters (MSTA, founded 1856) in
Columbia, Missouri is significant as the first permanent home ,for that
organization and the first building in any of the United States constructed
solely to house a state teachers organization. It is additionally
significant; as a design by the noted St. Louis architect, William Butts Ittner.~
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