{"nrhp_refnum":"86003845","name":"Administration Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1820 E. Eighth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Austin","county":"Travis County","state":"TX","lat":30.265293247000045,"lon":-97.72261998199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-10-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story institutional building over a full basement at 1820 East 8th Street on the Huston-Tillotson College campus in Austin, Texas, built in 1914 of scored concrete block made by students.","why_significant":"The building is a fine institutional example of modified Prairie Style. It was built by students trained on campus from materials they manufactured on the grounds. Together with Evans Industrial Hall, it represents the industrial-arts philosophy that typified Black education in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.","narrative":"Built in 1914 on the campus then known as Tillotson Collegiate and Normal Institute, the Administration Building at 1820 East 8th Street in Austin is a raised, two-story structure over a full basement. Its walls are scored concrete block fabricated by the college's industrial students, and the design is a modified Prairie Style. Set dramatically on a hillside, it has gabled entrance porches, double-hung windows, a hipped metal roof and two tall chimneys. The building was constructed by students trained on campus using materials they made on the grounds, reflecting the school's emphasis on manual and technical training alongside liberal arts. Along with Evans Industrial Hall, it embodies the pragmatic industrial-arts philosophy common in Black education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The exterior is unaltered. The building has been unused for years and its interior has been vandalized, but cast-iron columns and pressed-tin ceilings survive. The college withdrew an earlier objection to listing in 1993.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Constructed in 1914 by students trained on campus at Tillotson Collegiate and Normal Institute (no individual architect named)","architectural_style":"Modified Prairie Style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Unused for a number of years with interior vandalism, though features such as cast-iron columns and pressed-tin ceilings remain; exterior not altered; condition fair.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.944321-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/48/9703/40970348/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/86003845.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003845/1e70f23fa6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003845/1e70f23fa6-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"WhisperToMe","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AnthonyLouiseViaerAlumniHall.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">WhisperToMe</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AnthonyLouiseViaerAlumniHall.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100007662","name":"Huston-Tillotson College","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/huston-tillotson-college-100007662/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40970348","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_and_Louise_Viaer_Alumni_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4773765"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/travis-county/administration-building-86003845/"}