Texas School Book Depository Building - Texas State Historical Marker

The seven story red brick building on the corner of Elm and Houston streets sits with a somber, heavy stillness. Built as a distribution warehouse for farm machinery in nineteen oh three, the structure functioned for decades as a mundane storage hub for school textbooks. In nineteen sixty-three, employees watched the presidential motorcade from these windows. Minutes later, the site became the focal point of a federal investigation after shots rang out from the sixth floor corner window, forever altering the building's identity.