It was picture time for St. Andrew’s, the venerable Episcopal church building on 217 West 26th street in Bryan.
When graduate students from the Texas A&M College of Architecture come to document historical buildings, however, they do much more than take snapshots.
Graduate students enrolled in ARCH 649, Recording Historic Buildings, spent their Summer I session recording the historic building, whose cornerstone was laid in 1912; the structure was finished in 1914.
“We’re going to give them Historic American Buildings Survey Level drawings that they can put in their archives," said architecture professor Bob Warden, who’s also the director of the college’s Center for Heritage Conservation.
In addition to creating drawings of the church, which was entered into the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, students used the college’s laser scanner to create a three-dimensional rendering.
