Princeton University Chapel
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The Princeton University Chapel is a Collegiate Gothic chapel located on that university's main campus in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. It replaces an older chapel that burned down in 1920. Designed in 1921 by Ralph Adams Cram in his signature style, it was built by the university between 1924 and 1928 at a cost of $2.3 million. The chapel was rededicated in an interfaith ceremony in 2002 following a major two-year restoration.
The exterior of the Chapel seen from the southeast, with the Mather Sundial in the foreground
The exterior, seen from the west
The interior, looking east from about halfway through the nave. The choir and the east window, titled "The Love of Christ", are in the background.
The interior south wall of the nave. James Madison is shown in brown and royal blue in the rightmost panel of the upper right window.
Ralph Adams Cram
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Ralph Adams Cram was a prolific and influential American architect of collegiate and ecclesiastical buildings, often in the Gothic Revival style. Cram & Ferguson and Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson are partnerships in which he worked. Cram was a fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
Cram in 1911
Cover of Time magazine (December 13, 1926)
First Unitarian Society of Newton, Massachusetts (1905)
House of the Rising Sun, Fall River, Massachusetts, c. 1890