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Texas Christian University started out as AddRan College, founded by the Clark brothers in Thorp Spring in 1873. It later spent years in Waco, where it took the Horned Frog as its mascot. After a 1910 fire wrecked its Waco main building, Fort Worth business leaders offered land and money, and TCU opened its campus here in 1911. This walk starts at the oldest buildings and passes the chapel, the library and the fountain where graduates take photos, then ends at the stadium.
Texas Christian University is a private college or university in Fort Worth, Tarrant County. It is one of 10 degree-granting colleges and universities TexasRoam maps in Tarrant County.
The site sits at 32.7103, -97.3621 near Fort Worth. The nearest cataloged historic site is Texas Christian University (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Brite Divinity School, Alice E. Carlson Elementary School, and University United Methodist Church.
TCU grew out of a private school that brothers Addison and Randolph Clark, Restoration Movement preachers and Confederate veterans, opened in Fort Worth in 1869. Put off by the saloons and gambling halls of the cattle-trail district known as Hell's Half Acre, the Clarks moved southwest to Thorp Spring in Hood County, where in 1873 they began AddRan Male & Female College, the date the university counts as its founding. The coeducational college affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in 1889 and took the name AddRan Christian University. Seeking a larger town and better rail access, it relocated to Waco in 1895, adopted the name Texas Christian University in 1902, and during those years chose purple and white and the horned frog as its emblems. After fire destroyed its main building in 1910, Fort Worth business leaders offered a 50-acre campus and $200,000 to bring the school back, and TCU opened on its present southwest Fort Worth site in 1911. A 1923 bequest from Mary Couts Burnett, including a half interest in the Four Sixes Ranch, became the core of the university's endowment, and the library completed in 1924 carries her name. The campus grew rapidly after World War II under president M. E. Sadler, when some 25 buildings, among them a chapel and a student center, were added and the first Ph.D. programs began. Today TCU is a Big 12 member known for its Neeley School of Business, its ranch management program, Brite Divinity School and its tradition-rich Horned Frog athletics.
“Texas Christian University” names 2 distinct records in Tarrant County. This page is the college & university in Fort Worth. The others:
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