National Register Listing

Scottish Rite Dormitory

210 W. 27th St., Austin, TX

The Scottish Rite Dormitory (1922) was built to help ease the extreme shortage of women's housing at the University of Texas at Austin. Originally proposed in 1920 by Samuel P. Cochran, Executive Head of Scottish Rite Masonry in Texas, the Scottish Rite Dormitory was the first such building sponsored by the Scottish Rite Masons in Texas. The Scottish Rite Dormitory continues to house female university students who are either daughters of, or who are sponsored by, individual Masons. Designed by Dallas architect Herbert M. Greene, a 33rd Degree Mason, the dormitory is an excellent example of a Georgian Revival design applied to a large-scale contemporary program. The Scottish Rite Dormitory is nominated to the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A in the area of Social History and under Criterion C in the area of Architecture, at the local level of significance.

Local significance of the building:
Social History; Architecture

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.