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Wise County Heritage Museum (Administration Building, Decatur Baptist College)

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1893. 1602 S. Trinity St.

Northwest Baptist College was founded in 1891, and its first classes were held here in 1893. The school went bankrupt in 1896 and was acquired for the Decatur Baptist College, which operated here until 1965, when it moved to Dallas. The property was then privately purchased and donated to the Wise County Historical Society as a museum. Located on a rise at the south end of Trinity Street, the three-story rock-faced granite structure was designed in a Romanesque mode. The cornice is broken by large pedimented dormers with arched windows, and an open, arched tower with a pyramidal roof rises above the entrance. The one-room Sam Woody Cabin (c. 1854), the earliest dwelling in the area, was relocated to the museum grounds in 2006.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Wise County Courthouse
Sicily Ann Halsell and Daniel Waggoner Mansion, “El Castile”

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Wise County Heritage Museum (Administration Building, Decatur Baptist College)", [Decatur, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-DD28.

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, 242-243.

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