Art Building B

The original purpose of the two-story wood frame building is uncertain but may have been one structure in a small apartment or hotel complex as evidenced by the two-bedroom/one-bath apartments on the second floor.

The building was purchased by SHSU in the late-1980s, appearing as a Property Building in campus documentation [1]. Between 1989 and 1994, the Art Complex expanded with three new buildings (A, D, and E), and this building became Building B [2]. Campus maps of the 1990s were not always detailed and labeled this and the neighboring buildings as a collective group called the Fine Arts Complex [3]. The Department of Art initially used the building for jewelry classes. It became a studio space for the photography program in the mid-2000s.

In the late 1990s, SHSU also identified it as the Brumby Building for reasons unknown [4].

SHSU demolished this building in July 2016, with the property becoming a parking lot.