Marker Inscription
Community Planning and Develpment, Education, Ethnic Heritage - Black
Historic Place
President's House at Texas College
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About this site
President's House at Texas College is a historic place in Tyler, Smith County, dedicated in 2007. It is one of 17 historic places documented in Smith County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 272 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 32.3727, -95.3113 near Tyler. The nearest cataloged historic site is D. R. Glass Library at Texas College (historic place), about 0.1 miles away. Others within a short drive include Martin Hall at Texas College, Pugh-Goss, and Cedar Street United Methodist Church.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2007000131. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The President's House at Texas College was built in 1942 and designed by McKissack & McKissack, a pioneering Black-owned architecture firm, as the residence for the president of the college. Texas College is a historically Black institution in Tyler founded in 1894 by ministers of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, and the President's House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
Sources: en.wikipedia.orgen.wikipedia.org
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