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Wiggins
Road and University Avenue
University of Texas El Paso
campus
by Sarah Reveley |
El Paso Centennial Museum today
Photo courtesy Russell Johnson, 2008 |
El
Paso - El Paso Centennial MuseumThis
unique museum owes its style to the wife of the Dean, who was reading “Castles
in the Air" in the April 1914 issue of National Geographic, and noticed the striking
similarities between the rugged landscape of the Asian Kingdom of Bhutan and the
new College of Mines and Metallurgy location. There were photographs of buildings
with high sloping walls, deep inset windows, red brick friezes, mandalas, and
majestic overhangs. Mrs. Worrell eventually convinced officials to use the architecture
of the small Himalayan nation as a model for the buildings of the new campus.
It was designed to house the most complete mineral collections in the Southwest,
an excellent exhibit of Indian pottery, habitat groups of the birds and mammals
of West Texas, and a large collection
of invertebrate paleontological materials arranged for individual research study.
The museum is located on Wiggins Road and University Avenue at the University
of Texas at El Paso campus. http://museum.utep.edu/
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The El Paso Centennial Museum
From "Monuments Commemorating the Centenary
of Texas Independence", State of Texas, 1938 | |
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