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Bingham Group

Schurz Hall (left), Bingham Commons (center), and Hatch Hall, ca. 1963 (right) (Courtesy of University Archives, University of Missouri: C:1/40/1).
Date designed: 1962
Date constructed: 1962
Date of dedication: April 11, 1965
 Architectural consultant: HOK, St. Louis, MO
Named after: Carl Schurz, former U.S. Senator from Missouri and United States Secretary of the Interior under Presidents Rutherford B. Hayes and James Garfield.
William Hatch, former U.S. Representative from Missouri and sponsor of the Hatch Act of 1887, which established State Agricultural Experiment Stations across the country.
George Caleb Bingham, American painter and former Missouri legislator.
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Major Revision: June 2016