14. Amasa Stone Chapel
Built in 1882, Amasa Stone is one of two chapels on campus.
It is used for lectures, annual honors assemblies, and ceremonial
events of all kinds. (The pronunciation is A'-ma-sa.) This
dignified Gothic chapel was designed by Henry Vaughn, a Boston
architect who made a career of recreating English gothic chapels
in America. It was given by Clara Stone Hay, wife of U.S. Secretary
of State John
Hay, and Flora
Stone Mather as a memorial to their father, Amasa
Stone. Over the southeast entrance is a bust of Stone,
originally one of a set used as keystones in the arches of
Cleveland's Union Depot, which Stone built on West Ninth Street
in 1866. The sculpture to the east, between Amasa Stone Chapel
and the Baker Building, is Morning Star, by Jon
Barlow Hudson; it was given by the Andrews-Foundation to
commemorate the 100th anniversary of the removal of the college
from Hudson to Cleveland (1982).
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