Historical Marker
Texas Tech Judging Pavilion
Lubbock, Lubbock County · Texas
Erected 1982
Wyatt C. Hedrick was a Virginian with an engineering degree from Washington and Lee who came to Texas in 1913 for the Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation's Dallas office. He ran his own Fort Worth construction company, joined the architects Sanguinet and Staats in 1921 and opened his own practice in 1925, and at one time his firm was considered the third-largest in the United States. Besides Texas Tech he designed for TCU, Texas Wesleyan and North Texas, and his best-known works include the Will Rogers Memorial Center, the Shamrock Hotel and the Sterick Building in Memphis.
What the plaque says
Texas Tech Judging Pavilion One of the first four buildings on the Texas Tech campus, the Livestock Judging Pavilion was the school's first structure built specifically for agricultural education. Completed in the 1920s, it was designed by the noted Fort Worth architect Wyatt C. Hedrick as part of the school's proposed agricultural focus. It has been used for a variety of college functions, including early basketball games. The pavilion now serves as a reminder of the influence agriculture had on the early development of Texas Tech University. 1982
Where it stands
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Worth the stop nearby
- National Ranching Heritage Center — 0.7 miA Texas Tech outdoor museum where ranch houses, barns, windmills and a depot from across the ranching country were moved one by one onto a single park beside the campus.
- Buddy Holly Center — 2.0 miThe city's museum of Buddy Holly and West Texas music in a 1928 railway depot, with the house where the Crickets worked on That'll Be the Day moved next door.
- Lubbock Lake Landmark — 2.9 miA bend of Yellow House Draw on Lubbock's north edge where digging has found nearly 12,000 years of people on the Southern High Plains, layer on layer, from Clovis to the 1880s.
- American Windmill Museum — 3.1 miLubbock's park of restored water-pumping windmills and early wind chargers, more than 70 of them turning outdoors and the rare ones under roof, with a megawatt-era turbine overhead.