University of Texas Medical Branch [UTMB]

The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) Ashbel Smith Building, affectionately known as Old Red, was completed in 1890 in the Romanesque Revival style. Its colorful nickname comes from its construction of red-pressed brick, red Texas granite and sandstone. The oldest medical school building in Texas, Old Red is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and marked with a Texas Historical Commission placard. Old Red earned its landmark status by surviving the Galveston hurricane of 1900; although the storm destroyed much of Old Red’s original roof, the main structure remained and today continues to serve thousands of UTMB students, faculty, staff and visitors as well as house administrative offices, the School of Medicine’s Alumni Association office, a teaching amphitheater, the Institute for the Medical Humanities and an anatomy laboratory used in the training of future physicians.

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