Published Thursday, March 27, 2008 2:13 AM

Blinn Timeline

March 28, 1883 -- Opened in Brenham as Mission Institute, part of the Southern German Conference of the Methodist denomination.

1889 -- Name changed to Blinn Memorial College in honor of the Reverend Christian Blinn of New York, a major donor.

1927 -- Organized as a junior college.

1930 -- Merged with Southwestern University of Georgetown.

1934 -- A new charter acquired by the residents of Brenham transformed Blinn into a private, nonsectarian junior college under the name Blinn College.

1937 -- An election held in Washington County created a public junior college district, making Blinn the first county-owned junior college district in Texas.

1970 -- Blinn began offering night classes at Allen Academy in Bryan and A&M Consolidated High School in College Station.

1972 -- Blinn moved to the Kraft Building in downtown Bryan and began offering day classes.

1982 -- A now-defunct law limiting branch campuses to 1,000 students prompted Blinn to expand to the Woodstone Shopping Center in College Station. The combined fall enrollment in Brazos County was 1,771.

1989 -- Blinn moved out of the Kraft Building and into the Townshire Shopping Center in Bryan.

1991 -- Blinn converted the old post office building in Bryan into its Allied Health Center housing the newly established nursing, dental hygiene, emergency medical services and physical therapy assistant programs.

1997 -- Blinn and the city of Bryan built a main Brazos County campus on 75 acres near Villa Maria Road at East 29th Street. The first three buildings housed academic classrooms, administrative offices, a library, student center, learning center, bookstore and copy center. Spring enrollment was 7,013.

1997 -- Blinn established a campus in Schulenburg.

2000 -- Two more buildings opened in Bryan, consolidating most of the technical and academic programs onto the main Brazos County campus.

2001 -- Blinn purchased the Schulman 6 Theaters and College Park Center properties in Bryan for additional classroom and parking space.

2004 -- A ninth building opened on the main Brazos County campus. Fall enrollment was 10,452.

2005 -- Blinn established a campus in Sealy.

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