Dahlgren Chapel at Georgetown University
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DigitalGeorgetown
Georgetown University Archives, Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Washington, D.C.
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Georgetown College (1789-1815)
Georgetown University
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Dahlgren Chapel, the ninth building on 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. The Chapel was the first building on campus named after a non-Jesuit and also the first to be funded exclusively by outside gifts.
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