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Sherman Hall, Austin College

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1915, C. D. Hill; 1989 renovated. 920 N. Grand Ave.

Austin College was founded in 1849 in Huntsville by Presbyterian minister Daniel Baker and relocated to Sherman in 1876. Following a fire that burned the college’s “Old Main” administration building to the ground, it was replaced with this buff brick building. The three-story, classical structure features full-height engaged Ionic columns on the building’s east facade and originally housed the library, classrooms, and an auditorium-chapel, which accounts for the stained glass windows on the second floor.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Paul Brown Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse
Sherman Jazz Museum (Travis Lodge No. 117)
Sherman Museum (Carnegie Library)
Grayson County Courthouse
Noble Allan Birge House

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Sherman Hall, Austin College", [Sherman, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-MC16.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 122-122.

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