Buddy Holly was born in Lubbock in 1939 and went on to become a nationally prominent rock-and-roll musician. The two parallel avenues, Crickets and Buddy Holly, where this museum to Holly’s career is located, became a subcenter of downtown Lubbock as it developed in the 1930s adjacent to the Fort Worth and Denver South Plains Railway Station. The station and the Cactus Theater (LK13) are the neighborhood’s principal monuments. Hedrick, co-architect of the Texas Tech campus (LK17), employed a similar idiom here of buff brick, carved stone trim, and red tile roofs for the small passenger station. Abandoned by the South Plains Railway in 1953, the station was converted for restaurant use in 1973. Purchased by the City of Lubbock in 1997, the depot was expanded and renovated for use as the Buddy Holly Center, which not only commemorates Holly but is also a contemporary performance and exhibition space.