Henry Pfeiffer Library

The Henry Pfeiffer Library, built in 1941 on the campus of the now-closed MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois, once housed approximately 150,000 volumes. Annie Merner Pfeiffer provided matching funding for the erection of the library, as well as the Annie Merner Chapel across the open quadrangle to honor her late husband. Her endowment contains the prohibition that nothing shall be built between the two buildings to block the view of either from the other.

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