As part of routine maintenance on this blog despite not adding anything recently, I wanted to give 1501 Texas Avenue a better version of what it currently had, so all this is essentially a 2026 post despite its 2019 posting date. In January 1980 this opened as College Station Bank. The origins of this were that First State Bank out of Hearne (not to be confused with First State Bank out of Caldwell, see "Western National Bank of Bryan" had interest in doing business in College Station. An article from December 1979 indicates that they wanted to "change from a state to a national charter and move [to College Station]". This would be called College Station Bank (not to be confused with College Station State Bank, the former name of University National Bank) but that the January 1980 opening would be "temporary quarters" for the bank. (It was a brand-new building.)
In summer 1982, College Station Bank became Unitedbank-College Station, described as a "close association of banks" with branches in Victoria, Orange, and two in Houston. Like I've previously touched on in the Western National Bank article, Unitedbank-College Station merged with Citizens Bank of Bryan (as United Citizens Bank) before being acquired in 1991 by Don Adam's First American Bank, which had been founded in 1989 when Adam purchased and reopened Bryan-based First Bank & Trust...but from what I can tell, this only was the accounts. The building's contents were auctioned off.
In early 1993, Texas A&M Foundation Trust announced it would move to the site from its old location at 1716 Briarcrest Drive Suite 300. It was still home to Texas A&M Foundation in 2002 (they moved to the new Hagler Center on campus, at 401 George Bush Drive around this time). Afterwards, it became a full TAMU building with an official TAMU paid lot (Lot 120). As of 2026 this has the Information Technology department and the Office of Internal Audit.
UPDATE 07-09-2026: Full and complete rewrite done. In the original 2019 version of this post, it suggests that Aggieland Credit Union was here (that was at 301 Dominik). As part of the new version of the post, it has also received a new name ("College Station Bank at 1501 Texas Avenue"), previously titled as "1501 Texas Avenue". [banks] has been added.
