Texas Tech University Campus Architecture Tour

Professor Emeritus Nolan Barrick, former Chair of the Department of Architecture (now College of Architecture) gave a tour of the original Texas Tech University campus buildings. He is the author of Texas Tech, the Unobserved Heritage. Lubbock, Tex., U.S.A. : Texas Tech Press, [1985]. His tour included discussions of the original architect, William Ward Watkins, and the plan of the campus, and some of the adaptations made to the older buildings.

Ranching Heritage Center Tour

John White, Professor in the College of Architecture, gave a tour of the Ranching Heritage Center. The Ranching Heritage Center is an outdoor museum comprised mostly of historic structures from ranches all over Texas. Professor White discussed not only the history and original locations of many of the structures but also the measures taken to relocate them to the Ranching Heritage Center, and the efforts made to preserve them. A dust storm that sprang up in the midst of the tour also provided verisimilitude.