{"nrhp_refnum":"83004496","name":"Fisher Hall","other_names":["Boy's Dorm,Coronal Institute","Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1132 Belvin St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Marcos","county":"Hays County","state":"TX","lat":29.87662750900006,"lon":-97.95463458399996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-08-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Fisher Hall is a three-story buff-brick building at 1132 Belvin Street in San Marcos, Texas, built in 1906 as a boys' dormitory for Coronal Institute and designed by architect W.N. Hagy.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a handsome example of early 20th-century institutional architecture and the only surviving building from Coronal Institute. It also served the community in several later roles, including as a World War I training dormitory and a hospital from 1923 until 1960.","narrative":"Built in 1906 as a boys' dormitory for Coronal Institute in San Marcos, Fisher Hall is a three-story buff-brick building at 1132 Belvin Street, designed by architect W.N. Hagy. It is named for Rev. Sterling Fisher, the school's president from 1903 to 1916. Its most prominent feature is a five-bay porch with massive columns, round arches with keystones and a dentiled cornice, added between 1928 and 1931. Coronal closed in 1919, and the building then housed Normal School Army Training Corps members during World War I. In 1923 it opened as the Soldiers and Sailors and Marine Hospital, funded by community donations, and remained a hospital until 1960. The American Legion then leased it to the San Marcos Baptist Academy as a junior cadet dorm. Today it is a fraternity house. As the only remaining Coronal Institute building, it is valued for its architecture and its many community roles.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"W.N. Hagy, architect","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied as a fraternity house (private residence); condition described as fair and altered, with good rehabilitation potential.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.574628-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/55/9695/40969555/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/83004496.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40969555","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110000453"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/hays-county/fisher-hall-83004496/"}