Open your eyes.  Look around you.  What do you see?  Have you taken the time to really appreciate the people and the beauty that surrounds you?     As a native of College Station, an Aggie, and a person that worked in the Administration Building for three years, it still amazes me that I notice new things about this beautiful building every time I open my eyes and really look at it.  

Earnest Langford described the Administration Building, which was built in 1932, as "the most grandiosely conceived structure ever erected on the campus." 

The Administration building, facing the East entrance to the Texas A&M University campus, has been known by several names.  

It has been called the Systems Building, the System Administration Building.  Now days, it officially goes by the J.K. Williams Administration Building.   

The building was designed in a classical mode by Professor C.S.P Vosper and was built by the college architect, Frederick Ernst Gieske. 

The capitals on the 14 columns across the front of the building has portraits of A&M students worked into them. 

Although A&M was an all male school at the time, one female's face was included.  She was Sarah Orth, the daughter of William A Orth, the superintendent of construction on the building.   

Above the front doors are cast stones portraying the father of Texas and the father of Texas Education;  Stephen F. Austin and Mirabeu B. Lamar, respectively. 

 Bronze doors with ornate A&M emblems and Greek figures are backed by beautiful stained glass windows.      

Notice the A&M emblems to the right? 

Notice the colored glass?   

At some point, I'll share inside pictures. The inside is just as ornate, but a little more difficult to photograph due to lighting. 

Source of technical facts: Cooper and Dethloff, Footsteps (College Station, TX:  Texas A&M University Press, 1991)

Photographed,

written and posted by

Sondra Meyer CPA/Real Estate Broker

United Country Brazos Valley Realty

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