It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

[2] It was a historic building of the Decatur Baptist College, which was founded in 1891 and which held classes during 1892–93 in an opera house space above a grocery store in Decatur.

After the building was completed in 1893, it had 149 enrolled students and eight faculty in the 1893–94 school year.

[3] On March 18, 2023, the building, which houses the Wise County Heritage Museum, was completely destroyed in a blaze shortly after midnight along with many artifacts being lost.

This article about a property in Texas on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.