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About. Kirkpatrick Chapel is part of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, chartered in 1766 as Queen’s College, the nation’s eighth-oldest institution of higher learning. The chapel was constructed in 1873 by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh in memory of Sophia Astley Kirkpatrick of New Brunswick, New Jersey, wife of Littleton Kirkpatrick ...
July 2, 1973. The Sophia Astley Kirkpatrick Memorial Chapel, known as Kirkpatrick Chapel, is the chapel to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and located on the university's main campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey in the United States. Kirkpatrick Chapel is among the university's oldest extant buildings, and one of six buildings ...
- 650
- University chapel
- 116 feet (35 m)
Visit. Kirkpatrick Chapel is at 81 Somerset Street, on the elegant Old Queens Campus in the heart of Downtown New Brunswick, New Jersey. The chapel is easily accessible by car, public transportation, or Rutgers campus bus, and visitors are welcome anytime during normal operating hours, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Kirkpatrick Chapel 81 Somerset St New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Phone: 848-932-7808 Email: jcooper@mgsa.rutgers.edu
The Sophia Astley Kirkpatrick Memorial Chapel, known as Kirkpatrick Chapel, is the chapel to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and located on the university's main campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey in the United States. Kirkpatrick Chapel is among the university's oldest extant buildings, and one of six buildings located on a historic section of the university's College Avenue ...
Apr 6, 2016 · The Kirkpatrick Chapel was built in memory of Sophia Astley Kirkpatrick, wife of Littleton Kirkpatrick, trustee of Rutgers College. Henry Hardenburgh was the designer of the chapel, Grandson of the first President of Rutgers Jacob Hardenburgh. He went on to have a successful building career, and this was at the forefront of it.
Kirkpatrick Chapel. 1873. Kirkpatrick Chapel, designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh (great-great-grandson of the first president of Rutgers, also the architect of Geology Hall), was built as a chapel and library. The library was removed in 1903, thus increasing the seating capacity in the Chapel from 300 to 600 persons.
