Hyde Park / Rockefeller Memorial Chapel

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel.

Built: 1928

Architect: Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue.

Location: 1156-1180 E. 59th Street.
University of Chicago/ Hyde Park.

Date designated a Chicago Landmark: November 3, 2004.

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel

The University of Chicago campus architect Henry Ives Cobb, in his original sketch of the campus in 1892, included a chapel on the east end of the main quadrangle. In 1918, New York architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue [1869-1924] was asked to prepared designs for a University Chapel. Goodhue died on April 23, 1924, two years before construction of the Chapel began, and it is considered his last monument and enduring testament.

The Chapel is 265 feet long and 102 feet wide at its widest point.
The tower, towards the northeast corner, is 207 feet high and can be ascended via a spiral stone staircase of 271 steps.
Organ: The world-famous organ was designed by E.M. Skinner. The built into the Chapel during its construction and dedicated with the Chapel in 1928.
Carillon: The carillon was added to the tower in 1932.
Interior as well as exterior sculptures: Lee Lawrie and Ulric Ellerhausen.