Southwestern University Main Building
Oldest structure on permanent campus. Planned 1895-97 as chapel, library, classrooms, offices, when the regent (president) was Dr. J.H. McLean (1838-1925); built 1898-1900 under regent R.S. Hyer (1860-1929). From throughout the state came building fund gifts, which even included land from plantation of late Texas President Sam Houston.
Neo-Romanesque style. Builders, Flume & Waterston (from British isles), had worked on state capitol.
Marker is on East University Avenue, on the right when traveling west.
Courtesy hmdb.org
