Texas Christian University - Horned Frog Yearbook (Fort Worth, TX)

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FINE HHTS BUILIJIH Providing a Three-in-One arrangement, this newest building on the campus features the Ed Landreth Auditorium, three stories of offices, studios and class rooms of the School of Fine Arts, and the Little 1-Theater, with separate entrance frbown at leftj, along the west side, Opened in September, 1949, it cost 31,800,000 and is the largest building of its kind in Texas, if not in the South, and is the only structure in the nation pro- viding under one roof complete facilities for all the arts. The acoustically-perfect auditorium bears the name of the chairman of T. C. U.'s 310,000,000 building program, of which this building is a part -Ed Landreth, a trustee since 1941. Seating ca- pacity is 1625. ' i . 'Fil 1 S 1 Q. 1 1 rl 1

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