{"nrhp_refnum":"90000446","name":"Blinn College","other_names":["See Also:Main Building, Blinn College"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Third, Jackson, Fifth, Green, College, and High","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brenham","county":"Washington County","state":"TX","lat":30.159759792000045,"lon":-96.40445789147813,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-03-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about 16 acres in southwest Brenham, Washington County, Texas, covering three and a half city blocks. It combines the oldest part of the Blinn College campus on the west with frame houses and one church on the east, dating from about 1880 to the 1940s.","why_significant":"The district contains the historic core of the Blinn College campus, founded in 1883 by the Methodist Church, which was instrumental to Brenham's growth. It also preserves one of the city's most intact turn-of-the-century residential neighborhoods, built for faculty and administrators. It is significant for its cohesive set of late 19th and early 20th century domestic and academic architecture.","narrative":"Three full city blocks and half of a fourth in southwest Brenham make up this T-shaped district, which joins the oldest part of the Blinn College campus to the neighborhood that grew around it. The west end holds a masonry academic complex, including the 1906 Main Building and the circa 1913 Regency Hall, both in Mission Revival style. The east end has mostly one- and two-story frame houses and a Gothic Revival church dating from 1913. Blinn College was established in 1883 by the Methodist Church and grew from a two-story frame building into a larger group of buildings by the early twentieth century. Nearby lots filled with homes for faculty and administrators as Brenham expanded southwest from downtown. Houses range from Victorian L-plan cottages of about 1880 to bungalows, a Foursquare, and Classical Revival and Mediterranean examples. Of 34 properties, 22 contribute to the district's character and 12 do not. It was recognized for its role in the city's growth and its architecture.","period_of_significance":"1880-1941","architect_builder":"Multiple (see individual descriptions)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals/Early 20th Century Movements (Victorian, L-plan Victorian, Gothic Revival, Classical Revival, American Foursquare, Mission Revival, Mediterranean, Bungalow)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Campus buildings and houses remain in educational, residential and religious use. Several listed bungalows on Jackson Street are marked as demolished.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.301175-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/79/9706/40970679/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/90000446.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000446/b0e5c66842-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000446/b0e5c66842-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Reading Associate 17","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marie_Heineke_Memorial_Gymnasium_at_Blinn_College_IMG_9228.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Reading Associate 17</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marie_Heineke_Memorial_Gymnasium_at_Blinn_College_IMG_9228.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40970679","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112181299"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/washington-county/blinn-college-90000446/"}