The 1960s
By the late 1950s, the area east of White Rock Lake was growing with the addition of new homes and businesses. Likewise, the church and school (then located at 950 Tiffany Way where Dallas Academy now stands) were gaining in numbers. The school had added teachers and students through third grade. The church struggled to find enough seating for Sunday services. The one-acre site left no room for further development, so in 1960 Fr. McCrea and church leaders purchased almost 10 acres of land – the Harter dairy farm – for $30,000.
On that parcel of land, construction of a new church and school, designed by O’Neil Ford and Arch Swank, began in May 1962. Shortly afterward, Fr. McCrea was elected suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Dallas and was unable to see to the finish his vision and labor of love. In his place, the Reverend Eugene Malcolm was called to lead the church and school through the next five years. Quickly, the school and church grew into their new buildings, and in 1968 a new rector, the Reverend J. Robert Maceo, was called to shepherd the institution into the next decade.