Marker Inscription
Education, Ethnic Heritage - Black
Historic Place
Banks, W.R., Library
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About this site
Banks, W.R., Library is a historic place in Prairie View, Waller County, dedicated in 1999. It is one of 7 historic places documented in Waller County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 135 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 30.0932, -95.9893 near Prairie View. The nearest cataloged historic site is Evans, Annie Laurie, Hall (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Anderson, L.C., Hall, Woolfolk, G.R., Social and Political Science Building, and Hillard Hall.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2099000612. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The W. R. Banks Library at Prairie View A&M University was built in 1945 as the campus library and named for Willette Rutherford Banks, the school's longtime principal. Its construction was aided by funding from the General Education Board, the philanthropy established by John D. Rockefeller Sr. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999 as part of the university's historic and architectural resources.
Sources: sah-archipedia.orgen.wikipedia.org
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