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Memorial Union (University of Missouri)

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Memorial Union serves as a community center for the University of Missouri by providing meeting rooms, technology centers, dining facilities, and playing host to many special events. The facility was built in three stages between 1923 and 1963. It was designed by Jamieson and Spearl, which designed most of the campus buildings built between 1902 and the 1950s.

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Hitt Street 518
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