Administration Building, Decatur Baptist College
Administration Building, Decatur Baptist College | |
U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | |
Administration Building, Decatur Baptist College | |
Location | 1602 S. Trinity St., Decatur, Texas |
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Coordinates | 33°13′22″N 97°35′11″W / 33.22278°N 97.58639°WCoordinates: 33°13′22″N 97°35′11″W / 33.22278°N 97.58639°W |
Area | 0.4 acres (0.16 ha) |
Built | 1893 |
NRHP reference No. | 71000973[1] |
RTHL No. | 1197 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | March 11, 1971 |
Designated RTHL | 1964 |
The Administration Building, Decatur Baptist College, at 1602 S. Trinity St. in Decatur, Texas, and overlooking the town, was built in 1893. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.[1]
It was a historic building of the Decatur Baptist College, which was founded in 1891 and which held classes during 1892–93 in an opera house space above a grocery store in Decatur. After the building was completed in 1893, it had 149 enrolled students and eight faculty in the 1893–94 school year. The college went bankrupt in 1896, and reorganized as Decatur Baptist Junior College, the first private junior college in the U.S. Much later it moved to Dallas in 1964 and became Dallas Baptist College.[2]
It is a three-story limestone building. It included 15 rooms and a chapel.[2]
See also[]
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Wise County, Texas
- Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Wise County
References[]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b Wayne Bell and Gary Hume (November 12, 1970). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Administration Building, Decatur Baptist College (accessible by searching within National Archives Catalog)". National Archives.
External link[]
- Media related to Administration Building, Decatur Baptist College at Wikimedia Commons
- University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas
- School buildings completed in 1893
- Wise County, Texas
- National Register of Historic Places in Wise County, Texas
- Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks
- Texas Registered Historic Place stubs