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Library Stage I (the West Wing) was completed in February, 1967, the first entirely air conditioned building on campus and, at the time, one of the few fully carpeted libraries in the country.
Stage II (the East Wing) was finished in the spring of 1974, adding 80,000 assignable square feet to the existing 120,000 assignable square feet in the West Wing. The two structures are joined by passageways in the basement and on the second and third floors. The addition of the East Wing increased the Library's seating capacity from 1,500 to 2,700.
Stage III, which added 75,000 assignable square feet, was completed in 1987. It included northern extensions of the East and West Wings and a fourth floor conference center facility.
In 1979 the Library was named for Golda Meir, who attended Milwaukee State Normal School (a UWM predecessor institution) and later became Prime Minister of Israel. |
2311 E. Hartford Ave.
Built: 1967 (West Wing)
Cost: $ 3,671,542
Architect: Fitzhugh Scott, Jr.
1974 (East Wing)
Cost: $ 4,332,000
Architect: Fitzhugh Scott, Jr.
1987 (North Wing)
Cost: $ 14,312,700
Architect: Miller Meier Architects
and The Durrant Group
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