Early Campus

The architect's plan for the University

Laying the cornerstone of the Administratlon Building

The City and County officials were rushing about getting the roads and utilities stretched out to the southwestern Johnson grass hill that was to be campus, and the Traction Company managed to get the first car there on the opening day, September 16, 1911.

By October, 1910, the architects’ drawings were published. By Thanksgiving, the bids were in for two buildings, and so contracts were let to the Texas Building Company, for approximately $160,000 for Main and Jarvis…. Goode Hall was erected the following spring… [I]n May, 1911, a cornerstone-laying exercise was held on the new raw campus, involving quite a problem in transportation, for no car line was yet available.

–Colby Hall, History of Texas Christian University, 1947

1911

Goode Hall, Clark Hall, The Administration Building, and Jarvis Hall

1911

Goode Hall ministerial and boys' dormitory

1912

Clark Hall boys' dormitory

1911

Jarvis Hall girls' dormitory

(renovated 1955)

1914

Brite College of the Bible

(renovated 1958, renamed Bailey Building)

Circa 1920

Streetcar on campus

1911

The departing President Clinton Lockhart writes about the perils of the temporary quarters, the spirit and legacy of the University, and matters of the teaching business