​Southwestern University
​Main Building

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Marker No: 9343

Medallion & Plate 

Location: 1000 East University Avenue (SH 29), Georgetown

Marker Text: 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. (1962) 

Texas Historic Landmark

National register of Historic Places

Geographic: 30.633677, -97.667664