Marker Inscription
Education, Ethnic Heritage - Black
Historic Place
Hillard Hall
The landmarks the nation chose to remember.
About this site
Hillard Hall is a historic place in Prairie View, Waller County, dedicated in 1999. It is one of 7 historic places documented in Waller County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 135 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 30.0947, -95.9904 near Prairie View. The nearest cataloged historic site is Anderson, L.C., Hall (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Woolfolk, G.R., Social and Political Science Building, Evans, Annie Laurie, Hall, and Banks, W.R., Library.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2099000614. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
Hilliard Hall at Prairie View A&M University was built in 1939 as the campus dining hall. Part of the university's group of Depression-era buildings, it was later renovated and adapted to house the Department of Communications and the KPVU broadcasting stations. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
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