Legacy Work · Higher Education · Library
Jack Tarver Library
Mercer University · Macon, Georgia
Mercer's 1987 campus newspaper credits the library to Dunwody, Beeland and Henderson; Eugene Cox Dunwody's public biography names it among the projects under his direction.
- Dedicated
- 1987
- Architectural firm
- Dunwody, Beeland and Henderson
- Program
- University library
- Campus
- Mercer University
The project
Two independent records establish the attribution. The Mercer Cluster named Dunwody, Beeland and Henderson as designers when the library opened in 1987, while Eugene Cox Dunwody's obituary lists Tarver Library among the projects under his direction.
The multistory brick building addresses the campus with a peaked clock tower and a symmetrical entry composition. Traditional massing gives the library a civic face; inside, the program carried the changing technical and social demands of a late-twentieth-century university library.
The attribution applies to the original 1987 library. The building has remained in campus use as Mercer’s main Macon library.
Research record
Sources and provenance
Project facts and photography were archived from the firm’s public portfolio and cross-checked against the supplementary sources below.
Mercer University project photograph preserved for the owner-authorized Atelier record.