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Old Main, Blinn College

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1906, C. H. Page and Brother. 804 College St.
  • (Photograph by Gerald Moorhead )

Old Main remains the focal point of the Blinn College campus, its red brick Mission Revival style setting the pace for later development of buildings in complementary styles and materials. The Southern German Conference of the Methodist Church established the college in 1883. For many years, the German language served the institution. In the 1960s, the campus grew substantially as it offered course work to a larger region, operating as a community college.

Around the corner from Old Main is the Marie Heineke Gymnasium, a handsome Moderne building from 1941 clad in limestone and petrified wood. Fred Heineke contributed $2,000 toward the local match for the WPA-funded project and the building is named in honor of his mother. The 1968 W. L. Moody Library nearby has an arcaded limestone portico juxtaposed onto a red brick building plane and was designed by Edward F. Hildebrandt, who also designed the addition of 1981.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Brenham Presbyterian Church (Methodist Episcopal Church)
St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church
Frederick W. and Bertha R. Schuerenberg House
Pampell-Day Residence
Washington County Courthouse

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Old Main, Blinn College", [Brenham, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-PF12.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, 80-81.

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