Ezekiel W. Cullen Building, Art Deco administrative building at University of Houston, Texas.
The Ezekiel W. Cullen Building is an Art Deco administrative structure on the University of Houston campus featuring symmetrical wings and decorative pilasters across its front facade. The east section houses the Cullen Performance Hall while the west wing contains the President's office and various administrative departments.
The building opened on October 31, 1950 following its announcement in March 1945 as part of the University of Houston's expansion effort. Its completion represented a major milestone in the institution's postwar growth.
The building carries the name of Ezekiel Wimberly Cullen, a congressman and supreme court justice of the Republic of Texas. As chairman of the republic's education committee he sponsored the Cullen Act, which set up land endowments for schools and universities and laid the basis for a state public school system. His grandson Hugh Roy Cullen paid for the building and asked that it bear his grandfather's name.
The building sits prominently on the University of Houston's main campus and serves as an easy landmark to locate. Performance events are held in the Performance Hall while other areas are generally accessible during normal university hours.
KUHT, the first public television station in the United States, began broadcasting on May 25, 1953, from the fifth floor of the E. Cullen Building. It moved to studios on Cullen Boulevard in 1964.
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