Second Trinity University Campus

Three buildings on Sycamore Street in Waxahachie, Texas, survive from the campus Trinity University occupied from 1902 until 1942. The three-story brick and limestone Administration Building, designed by the Dallas firm Hubbell & Greene in a Jacobethan or Collegiate Gothic style, has a crenelated tower entry and anchors the campus at the end of University Avenue. Drane Hall, built in 1911 as a women's dormitory, and the 1926 gymnasium complete the group. Trinity, a Presbyterian-founded school, moved here from Tehuacana around the turn of the century and grew in its early years in Waxahachie. The Depression cut enrollment and revenue, and in 1942 the university relocated to San Antonio. The campus was then acquired by what became Southwestern Assemblies of God College, which still uses the buildings for education. Two other Trinity-era buildings have been razed. The group was recognized for the Administration Building's architecture and for the educational history all three buildings represent.