Preacher, teacher, and publisher Joseph Addison Clark and his sons Addison and Randolph established a school in Fort Worth in 1869, which they moved in 1873 to Thorp Springs and named Add-Ran Male and Female College. Following acquisition by the Christian Church Convention of Texas, the school relocated to Waco in 1895 and was renamed Texas Christian University. In 1910, Fort Worth offered fifty acres and funds if the college would return; the present campus began operation in 1911. The 2020 Campus Facilities Plan (Perkins + Will) was adopted in 2009 to guide development of TCU’s campus. Twenty-first-century construction is in a retro-mid-twentieth-century classical style in buff brick, stone trim, and red tile roofs that falls far short of the architectural standard set by such actual mid-twentieth-century traditional buildings as the campus’s University Christian Church (1931, W. G. Clarkson and Company) and the Robert Carr Chapel-Beasley Hall-Moore Building quadrangle (1954, Joseph R. Pelich).
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