Worn-Out Building

ID: 3170 ~ Source: Lake, Helen. Interviewed by Maxine Hart, July 16, 1997, in Waco, TX. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. Access full interview here. 
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Helen Lake was a professor in the business school at Baylor in 1955. At the time, Old Main housed the business school and she was unimpressed with the old and cramped building. Old Main did not receive the updating that it so desperately needed until the 1970s.

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By Katie Chakmakjian
Anyone who has attended or visited Baylor University would recognize the familiar spires of Old Main as markers of the historic heart of campus. Built in 1887, Old Main was the first building constructed by Baylor in Waco. Baylor had previously been…