Southwest Baptist Theological Seminary

Southwestern began as a department of Baylor. The Handbook of Texas says Baylor's Theological Department opened in 1901 under B. H. Carroll, became Baylor Theological Seminary by 1905, and separated from the university when the state chartered it in 1908. Church music courses began in 1911, and under Isham Reynolds, who joined in 1915, grew into the School of Gospel Music by 1920. Religious education became a school by 1921. In 1994 trustees fired president Russell Dilday in what the Handbook calls apparently part of a struggle between conservatives and moderates over Baptist institutions.

What the plaque says

Southwest Baptist Theological Seminary Chartered March 14, 1908, for graduate education in Christian ministries. Moved here in 1910 from Waco, Texas. Original 200-acre campus tract and first building, Fort Worth Hall, were gifts of people of Fort Worth. Control passed from Baptist General Convention of Texas to Southern Baptist Convention in 1925. First president (1908-14) was B.H. Carroll. Successors: L.R. Scarborough, 1914-42; E.D. Head, 1942-53; J. Howard Williams, 1953-58; Robert E. Naylor, 1958-. (1972)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame — 4.3 mi
  A hall of fame begun in Hereford in 1975 to honor rodeo women, widened in 1977 to Western heritage, and housed in Fort Worth's Cultural District since 2002.
• Kimbell Art Museum — 4.6 mi
  Louis Kahn's cycloid-vaulted museum of 1972, built from Kay Kimbell's bequest and joined in 2013 by Renzo Piano's pavilion for the exhibitions the Kahn galleries could not hold.
• Tarrant County Courthouse — 5.1 mi
  A pink-granite courthouse of 1895 on the bluff where the Army set up Fort Worth in 1849, in a county named for the man who led the 1841 attack on the Native villages of Village Creek.
• Fort Worth Stockyards — 7.2 mi
  The brick-street cattle market where Armour and Swift built packing plants in 1902, now a National Register district with a Coliseum, a museum and a longhorn drive twice a day.

More markers nearby

• Travis Avenue Baptist Church — 1.6 mi
• First Hundred Years of Texas Christian University — 1.9 mi
• Elizabeth Boulevard — 2.3 mi
• Texas Log Cabins — 2.7 mi