Chapel - Construction, 1930

File — Box: W-03, Folder: W:024

Identifier: W:024

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series: This series includes materials relating to architectural plans, funding, construction, dedication of buildings/cornerstones.

Includes photos, postcards, newspaper clippings, calendars, brochures, student rules, blueprints, worship bulletins, fliers, and slides with script.

Dates

1930

Creator

Muhlenberg College (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research, with only a few very limited restrictions; access by appointment.

Extent

From the Collection: 50 Linear Feet (The bulk of the printed material (previously the vertical files) is contained in flip-top document cases. Textiles, memorabilia, and other realia is stored in appropriate lidded boxes.)

Additional Description

Photo of Gideon F. Egner (namesake of chapel); "Muhlenberg Weekly" photos of construction; details history and physical appearance; unbuilt war memorial, cloister, and chaplain's resident plans, 1944; Dimensions of building, Nave, seating capacity 1936.

12/17/1967 newspaper article with photos: "Chapel at Muhlenberg Due $100,000 Renewal"; probably in 1970, renovations will bring altar and pulpit closer to the congragation by relocating organ; same architect, William Heyl Thompson of Philadelphia, is working on changes.

One page copy from Muhlenberg Weekly 5/28/1930, 'Our Embryonic Chapel' shows Egner Chapel under construction.