Newly ordained Jesuits' first blessing in front of Dahlgren Chapel at Georgetown University
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Georgetown University Archives, Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Washington, D.C.
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Dahlgren Chapel, the ninth building on Georgetown's campus, was dedicated in 1893. Elizabeth Drexel and John Vinton Dahlgren (A.B. 1889, LL.B. 1891) had originally proposed that a small mortuary chapel be build as a memorial to their infant son, Joseph Drexel Dahlgren, who died in 1891. However, Georgetown President J. Havens Richards, S.J., had a grander vision, suggesting a larger chapel capable of serving the whole university community which the Dahlgrens agreed to fund. In addition to being the first building at the University to be named after a non-Jesuit, the Chapel was the first to be funded exclusively by outside gifts.
Repository: Booth Family Center for Special Collections. For more information about this collection please email: speccoll@georgetown.edu
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1925Rights Note
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Georgetown University
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9.5 in. x 7.75 in.
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