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107/117 E Willow

1950 - Tiel Sanford Memorial Building, Museum and Planetarium

Single-story flat roofed rectangular plan with dome capped planetarium wing in northwest comer, full basement,
brick and glass front.
​The W. A. Sanford family funded the museum prior to World War I  in memory of their only child who died in  1927.
World War II delayed its construction.  Contracts were let in July 1949.  The building was finished in 1950 and
opened on April 22,  1951.
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    • Churches
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        • 108 N 2nd
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