What’s the Tallest Building on Campus?
TCU’s 295-acre campus sits on a gradual slope rising to the east. Though the lights hovering over Amon G. Carter Stadium are technically taller than any other campus structure, the steeple atop Robert Carr Chapel remains TCU’s high point because of its slightly uphill position on the rolling plain.
What’s the Tallest Building on Campus?
TCU’s 295-acre campus sits on a gradual slope rising to the east. Though the lights hovering over Amon G. Carter Stadium are technically taller than any other campus structure, the steeple atop Robert Carr Chapel remains TCU’s high point because of its slightly uphill position on the rolling plain.
Amon G. Carter Stadium
Built in 1930
279,179 square feet
Brown-Lupton University Union
Built in 2008
140,809 square feet
Clarence and Kerry Scharbauer Hall
Built in 2009
68,964 square feet
Mary Couts Burnett Library
Built in 1927
178,885 square feet
Robert Carr Chapel
Built in 1952
9,781 square feet
Click to enlarge.Other information:
The largest residential building is Marion Hall in Worth Hills, whose 81,549 square feet were completed in 2013.
At 391,441 square feet, the Worth Hills Parking Garage occupies the most space.
The biggest academic facility is the Sid Richardson Building, whose five floors consist of 149,842 square feet.
Jarvis and Reed Hall, both built in 1911, are TCU’s oldest buildings.
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