Marker Inscription
Education, Ethnic Heritage - Black
Historic Place
Veterninary Hospital
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About this site
Veterninary Hospital 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 30.0935, -95.9840 near Prairie View. The nearest cataloged historic site is Woolfolk, G.R., Social and Political Science Building (historic place), about 0.3 miles away. Others within a short drive include Banks, W.R., Library, Evans, Annie Laurie, Hall, and Hillard Hall.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2099000617. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The Veterinary Hospital at Prairie View A&M University, later named the Alfred N. Poindexter Veterinary Hospital, was built in 1925 and designed by university alumnus Louis E. Fry (class of 1922). It housed the animal science laboratories, veterinary hospital, and animal husbandry classrooms of the state's oldest historically Black land-grant institution. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
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