Buddy Holly Center is a museum in Lubbock, Lubbock County, dedicated in 1997. It is one of 10 museums documented in Lubbock County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 61 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 33.5785, -101.8427 near Lubbock. The nearest cataloged historic site is Fort Worth and Denver South Plains Railway Depot (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Cactus Theater, Caviel Museum of African American History, and Lubbock Post Office and Federal Building.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4200001056. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock is dedicated to native son Buddy Holly and the music of West Texas. It occupies the former Fort Worth and Denver South Plains Railway depot, built in 1928 in the Spanish Renaissance Revival style by architect Wyatt C. Hedrick, which closed as a station in 1953 and reopened as the Depot Restaurant in 1976 in one of Lubbock's first adaptive-reuse projects. The city acquired Holly artifacts in 1996 and the depot in 1997, opening the center in 1999 with a permanent Holly gallery, the Texas Musicians Hall of Fame, and rotating art galleries.
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