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Wagnalls Memorial Foundation
Enriching Lives is the core purpose at The Wagnalls Memorial. We offer a community center, library, museum, and theatre with many kinds of opportunities and activities. Scholarships are also provided to area youth.
Wonders of Wagnalls – beauty of the facility, quality of the services, cultural arts, and small-town community atmosphere all make Wagnalls a treasure worth finding.
Located just south of Columbus in Lithopolis, Ohio the building is constructed of native free stone. This Tudor-Gothic building provides the people of Central Ohio with a center for educational, cultural and literary arts activities.
The original building has an auditorium, a library, a banquet hall, and two tower rooms. The auditorium, seating 300+, has a high oak-beamed ceiling with a motion picture projection room at the rear. The banquet hall with a capacity for 150 people, a small stage with piano, and a complete kitchen is located on the lower level of the original Memorial Building. Other additions to the original building have an expanded space for the library, a museum, and meeting room space. The banquet hall, meeting rooms and garden area are available to rent for meetings or special events. The facilities are very active throughout the year.
In 1925 Mabel Wagnalls Jones designed and built The Wagnalls Memorial library and community center in memory of her parents, Anna and Adam Wagnalls. Adam was the co-founder of The Funk & Wagnalls Publishing Co. The Memorial is located in Lithopolis because both of Mabel’s parents were born and lived here. At her death in 1946, Mabel Wagnalls Jones left the bulk of her estate to The Memorial. Much good has been accomplished since the 1925 original construction and 1946 donation.
Wagnalls Is a Giving Place – Enriching Lives In Many Ways!
* $6,763,108+ given for scholarships from 1948 to present involving 3,200 + students, who attended 276+ different colleges
* $4,933,036+ for building projects with additions in 1960, 1983, 1991, and 1999 – providing space for library expansion, museum, offices, and meeting rooms. The additions continued the architectural theme established in the original building.
* $25 million+ paid out for all expenses related to the many different services provided for the past 80 years
Wonders of Wagnalls – beauty of the facility, quality of the services, cultural arts, and small-town community atmosphere all make Wagnalls a treasure worth finding.
Located just south of Columbus in Lithopolis, Ohio the building is constructed of native free stone. This Tudor-Gothic building provides the people of Central Ohio with a center for educational, cultural and literary arts activities.
The original building has an auditorium, a library, a banquet hall, and two tower rooms. The auditorium, seating 300+, has a high oak-beamed ceiling with a motion picture projection room at the rear. The banquet hall with a capacity for 150 people, a small stage with piano, and a complete kitchen is located on the lower level of the original Memorial Building. Other additions to the original building have an expanded space for the library, a museum, and meeting room space. The banquet hall, meeting rooms and garden area are available to rent for meetings or special events. The facilities are very active throughout the year.
In 1925 Mabel Wagnalls Jones designed and built The Wagnalls Memorial library and community center in memory of her parents, Anna and Adam Wagnalls. Adam was the co-founder of The Funk & Wagnalls Publishing Co. The Memorial is located in Lithopolis because both of Mabel’s parents were born and lived here. At her death in 1946, Mabel Wagnalls Jones left the bulk of her estate to The Memorial. Much good has been accomplished since the 1925 original construction and 1946 donation.
Wagnalls Is a Giving Place – Enriching Lives In Many Ways!
* $6,763,108+ given for scholarships from 1948 to present involving 3,200 + students, who attended 276+ different colleges
* $4,933,036+ for building projects with additions in 1960, 1983, 1991, and 1999 – providing space for library expansion, museum, offices, and meeting rooms. The additions continued the architectural theme established in the original building.
* $25 million+ paid out for all expenses related to the many different services provided for the past 80 years