The McMullen-Connally Faculty Center
The McMullen-Connally Faculty Center is a gathering place for Baylor faculty, designed after the McMullens' Houston-area home and built to honor the professors who shaped their years at Baylor. Inside, you'll find the McMullen-Connally Family Collection—227 watercolors from the celebrated California School of Watercolor—on permanent display throughout the building. The Center offers dining and four distinctive spaces available to reserve for meetings, lunches, and events.
Spaces
With on-site dining and five reservable spaces, the Center is a place for Baylor faculty to connect over lunch, host a meeting, or hold a special event.
Dr. Faber Francis McMullen (1929-2009) attended Baylor University where he earned his BS in 1953 and went on to earn his MD in 1956. He pursued a career as a cardiologist and distinguished himself as one of the premier doctors in the field.
Roxanna Connally McMullen attended Baylor from 1950 until 1952 and later received a BA in liturgical art from Sacred Heart Dominican College in 1972. Faber and Roxanna first met in 1950 in front of the Carroll Science Library Building. They were later married and moved to the Houston area.
The Faculty Center is designed after the McMullen's home in Bellaire, Texas, near downtown Houston. The McMullens donated the funds to build the Faculty Center primarily to honor the Baylor faculty that played such a crucial role in their years spent at the University.
The McMullen-Connally Family Collection consists of 227 watercolors by over sixty different artists and numerous personal artifacts. The watercolors represent a specific movement known as the California School of Watercolor that flourished in the 1930s and 1940s.
The McMullen's had a personal relationship with the majority of the artists in the collection as both admirers of their work and students of their techniques. In addition to the paintings, decades of correspondence between the various artists and the McMullens was included in their gift.