Historical Marker
Southwestern University Main Building
Historical marker location:
1000 E. University, Georgetown, Texas
( 1000 E. University Ave. (SH 29), Georgetown)
Marker installed: 1962
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.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1962.