Texas Hall, Old Trinity University - Tehuacana, TX - Victorian Style Architecture on Waymarking.com

"Prominently sited on a hilltop and surrounded by tree-covered grounds, Texas Hall stands on the site of a campus that served three colleges from 1869 to 1972. The four-story structure of locally cut, load bearing limestone walls, is a predominately Second Empire Style structure with Gothic details. Texas Hall was constructed in stages—a classroom block and auditorium wing built between 1871 and 1873, and two end pavilions which flank the main classroom block, constructed between 1873 and 1890. The stages were unified by a prominent mansard roof enclosing the fourth floor. In 1892 the four-story tower completed the composition."

"The main block of the T-shaped building forms a recessed five-bay portion on the main (east) facade, flanked on each side by the projecting end pavilions. Across the recessed portion, a three-story gallery with cast iron columns is sheltered by the mansard roof of the fourth floor. The symmetrical arrangement of openings displays a central double door on each floor, flanked on each side by two 9/9 light windows. On the ground floor five horizontal panels elaborate the doors and this entrance is enlarged by sidelights and transoms. Flat stone arches cover this door and flanking windows. The central doorways of the second and third floors exhibit Gothic arched transoms with simple Gothic tracery, while lancet windows pierce the doors. The windows on these upper floors also have Gothic arched transoms filled with tracery."

"Whereas the recessed section (1871 portion) is distinguished by smooth-faced limestone blocks, the later end pavilions display bold rock-faced ashlar with rusticated and smooth stone detailing. Smooth-faced quoins terminated by a stringcourse above the first floor define the ground level as the base of the building, while the verticality of the upper two floors is expressed by the corner pilasters and unbroken window bays. On the east (front) side of each pavilion, paired windows linked by a bracketed lintel form the ground floor opening, while the upper two floors contain a recessed central bay of nine over-nine light windows linked between floors by decorative spandrels and capped by a wide, rusticated segmental arch. The side and back portions of these pavilions contain linteled windows on the ground floor and a raised band of linteled windows on the 2nd and 3rd floors, rising unbroken from the stringcourse to the cornice."

"To the rear (west) extends the auditorium wing, which was part of the original 1871-73 building. Constructed of smooth-faced ashlar limestone blocks, the wing displays an eight-bay north and south facade with flat arched windows on the first floor and Gothic arched windows spanning the second and third levels. The narrow multi-pane Gothic arched windows rise the full height of the interior two-story auditorium space and are crowned by tracery-filled transoms. The west (rear) facade of the auditorium wing is similar to the sides, except that it extends only four bays in width."