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[[Image:SageChapel&McGrawTower.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Sage Chapel in front of McGraw Tower]]
[[Image:Sagechapel.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The [[altar]] and [[apse]] of Sage Chapel]]
[[Image:Sagechapel.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The [[altar]] and [[apse]] of Sage Chapel]]
'''Sage Chapel''' is the [[non-denominational]] [[chapel]] on the campus of [[Cornell University]] in [[Ithaca, New York|Ithaca]], [[New York State]] and serves as the final resting place of the university's founders, [[Ezra Cornell]] and [[Andrew Dickson White]], and their wives. The building was a gift to the university of [[Henry William Sage]] and his wife.<ref>[http://www.cornell.edu/search/index.cfm?tab=facts&q=&id=630 Cornell University - search]</ref>
'''Sage Chapel''' is the [[non-denominational]] [[chapel]] on the campus of [[Cornell University]] in [[Ithaca, New York|Ithaca]], [[New York State]] and serves as the final resting place of the university's founders, [[Ezra Cornell]] and [[Andrew Dickson White]], and their wives. The building was a gift to the university of [[Henry William Sage]] and his wife.<ref>[http://www.cornell.edu/search/index.cfm?tab=facts&q=&id=630 Cornell University - search]</ref>


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[[Image:SageChapel&McGrawTower.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Sage Chapel in front of McGraw Tower]]

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[[Image:AD White Sarcophagus.JPG|thumb|left|250px|[[Andrew Dickson White]]'s sarcophagus]]
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[[Image:Ezra Cornell Sarcophagus.JPG|thumb|left|250px|[[Ezra Cornell]]'s sarcophagus]]
Designed by the Reverend [[Charles Babcock]]<ref>''[http://www.jstor.org/cgi-bin/jstor/viewitem/08488525/ap050036/05a00100/0?frame=noframe&dpi=3&backcontext=page Re-Lighting a Historic Church Interior: Challenges at Cornell University's Sage Chapel]'' by Viggo Bech Rambusch; ''Association for Preservation Technology Bulletin'', Vol. 30, No. 2/3 (1999), pp. 56-59</ref>, also a Professor of Architecture at Cornell, opening services were held on June 13, [[1875]] with Reverend [[Phillips Brooks]] of Boston's [[Trinity Church, Boston|Trinity Church]] presiding.<ref>[http://www.news.cornell.edu/chronicle/05/4.7.05/CURW_Sage_anniv.html ''Cornell Chronicle'', "CURW, Sage Chapel host events to celebrate dual anniversaries" April 5, 2005]</ref> Further additions in 1898 and 1904 created space for the [[mausoleum]].<ref>[http://www.cornell.edu/search/index.cfm?tab=facts&q=&id=630 Cornell University - search]</ref> In 1940 another expansion and renovation added more space for a new choir loft and the current [[pipe organ]], a 3-manual [[Aeolian-Skinner]] with 69 [[organ stop|stops]] and an estimated 3858 speaking [[organ pipe|pipes]].<ref>[http://www.curw.cornell.edu/sagehistory.html CURW - Sage Hall History]</ref> The building includes [[Tiffany glass]] windows<ref>''[http://www.jstor.org/cgi-bin/jstor/viewitem/08488525/ap050036/05a00100/0?frame=noframe&dpi=3&backcontext=page Re-Lighting a Historic Church Interior: Challenges at Cornell University's Sage Chapel]'' by Viggo Bech Rambusch; ''Association for Preservation Technology Bulletin'', Vol. 30, No. 2/3 (1999), pp. 56-59</ref> and a [[stained glass]] memorial to [[Mississippi civil rights worker murders|three civil rights workers]] (one of whom was a Cornell alumnus, [[Michael Schwerner]]) murdered during [[Freedom Summer]].<ref>[http://www.curw.cornell.edu/sagehistory.html CURW - Sage Hall History]</ref>
Designed by the Reverend [[Charles Babcock]]<ref>''[http://www.jstor.org/cgi-bin/jstor/viewitem/08488525/ap050036/05a00100/0?frame=noframe&dpi=3&backcontext=page Re-Lighting a Historic Church Interior: Challenges at Cornell University's Sage Chapel]'' by Viggo Bech Rambusch; ''Association for Preservation Technology Bulletin'', Vol. 30, No. 2/3 (1999), pp. 56-59</ref>, also a Professor of Architecture at Cornell, opening services were held on June 13, [[1875]] with Reverend [[Phillips Brooks]] of Boston's [[Trinity Church, Boston|Trinity Church]] presiding.<ref>[http://www.news.cornell.edu/chronicle/05/4.7.05/CURW_Sage_anniv.html ''Cornell Chronicle'', "CURW, Sage Chapel host events to celebrate dual anniversaries" April 5, 2005]</ref> Further additions in 1898 and 1904 created space for the [[mausoleum]].<ref>[http://www.cornell.edu/search/index.cfm?tab=facts&q=&id=630 Cornell University - search]</ref> In 1940 another expansion and renovation added more space for a new choir loft and the current [[pipe organ]], a 3-manual [[Aeolian-Skinner]] with 69 [[organ stop|stops]] and an estimated 3858 speaking [[organ pipe|pipes]].<ref>[http://www.curw.cornell.edu/sagehistory.html CURW - Sage Hall History]</ref> The building includes [[Tiffany glass]] windows<ref>''[http://www.jstor.org/cgi-bin/jstor/viewitem/08488525/ap050036/05a00100/0?frame=noframe&dpi=3&backcontext=page Re-Lighting a Historic Church Interior: Challenges at Cornell University's Sage Chapel]'' by Viggo Bech Rambusch; ''Association for Preservation Technology Bulletin'', Vol. 30, No. 2/3 (1999), pp. 56-59</ref> and a [[stained glass]] memorial to [[Mississippi civil rights worker murders|three civil rights workers]] (one of whom was a Cornell alumnus, [[Michael Schwerner]]) murdered during [[Freedom Summer]].<ref>[http://www.curw.cornell.edu/sagehistory.html CURW - Sage Hall History]</ref>


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Sage Chapel has hosted many speakers, including [[Lyman Beecher]], [[John R. Mott]] (Cornell class of 1888), [[Mordecai Wyatt Johnson]], [[Harry Emerson Fosdick]], [[Stephen Wise]], [[Martin Luther King, Sr.]], [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], [[Reinhold Niebuhr]], [[Paul Tillich]], [[Elie Wiesel]], [[Abraham Heschel]], [[Hans Kung]], [[Harold Kushner]], [[Elizabeth Kübler-Ross]], [[Carl Sagan]], [[Jane Goodall]], [[Arianna Huffington]] and [[Peter Gomes]].<ref>[http://www.curw.cornell.edu/sagehistory.html CURW - Sage Hall History]</ref>
Sage Chapel has hosted many speakers, including [[Lyman Beecher]], [[John R. Mott]] (Cornell class of 1888), [[Mordecai Wyatt Johnson]], [[Harry Emerson Fosdick]], [[Stephen Wise]], [[Martin Luther King, Sr.]], [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], [[Reinhold Niebuhr]], [[Paul Tillich]], [[Elie Wiesel]], [[Abraham Heschel]], [[Hans Kung]], [[Harold Kushner]], [[Elizabeth Kübler-Ross]], [[Carl Sagan]], [[Jane Goodall]], [[Arianna Huffington]] and [[Peter Gomes]].<ref>[http://www.curw.cornell.edu/sagehistory.html CURW - Sage Hall History]</ref>


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[[Image:AD White Sarcophagus.JPG|thumb|right|150px|[[Andrew Dickson White]]'s sarcophagus]]
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[[Image:Ezra Cornell Sarcophagus.JPG|thumb|right|150px|[[Ezra Cornell]]'s sarcophagus]]
Besides the university founders and chapel benefactors, others interred there include University president [[Edmund Ezra Day]] and his wife, former New York Governor [[Alonzo Cornell]] and his wife, [[Jennie McGraw]], her father [[John McGraw (merchant)|John McGraw]] and her husband, [[Willard Fiske]].<ref>[http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/TO.html#SBE01IR36 Political Graveyard - Sage Chapel]</ref><ref>[http://www.curw.cornell.edu/sagehistory.html CURW - Sage Hall History]</ref>
Besides the university founders and chapel benefactors, others interred there include University president [[Edmund Ezra Day]] and his wife, former New York Governor [[Alonzo Cornell]] and his wife, [[Jennie McGraw]], her father [[John McGraw (merchant)|John McGraw]] and her husband, [[Willard Fiske]].<ref>[http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/TO.html#SBE01IR36 Political Graveyard - Sage Chapel]</ref><ref>[http://www.curw.cornell.edu/sagehistory.html CURW - Sage Hall History]</ref>


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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.curw.cornell.edu/sage.html Cornell United Religious Work - Sage Chapel]
*[http://www.curw.cornell.edu/sage.html Cornell United Religious Work - Sage Chapel]

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The altar and apse of Sage Chapel

Sage Chapel is the non-denominational chapel on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York State and serves as the final resting place of the university's founders, Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, and their wives. The building was a gift to the university of Henry William Sage and his wife.[1]

Sage Chapel in front of McGraw Tower

Designed by the Reverend Charles Babcock[2], also a Professor of Architecture at Cornell, opening services were held on June 13, 1875 with Reverend Phillips Brooks of Boston's Trinity Church presiding.[3] Further additions in 1898 and 1904 created space for the mausoleum.[4] In 1940 another expansion and renovation added more space for a new choir loft and the current pipe organ, a 3-manual Aeolian-Skinner with 69 stops and an estimated 3858 speaking pipes.[5] The building includes Tiffany glass windows[6] and a stained glass memorial to three civil rights workers (one of whom was a Cornell alumnus, Michael Schwerner) murdered during Freedom Summer.[7]

The chapel is located on Ho Plaza, across from Willard Straight Hall and next to John M. Olin Library, the Jennie McGraw bell tower and Barnes Hall.

Sage Chapel has hosted many speakers, including Lyman Beecher, John R. Mott (Cornell class of 1888), Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Stephen Wise, Martin Luther King, Sr., Martin Luther King, Jr., Reinhold Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, Elie Wiesel, Abraham Heschel, Hans Kung, Harold Kushner, Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, Carl Sagan, Jane Goodall, Arianna Huffington and Peter Gomes.[8]

Andrew Dickson White's sarcophagus
Ezra Cornell's sarcophagus

Besides the university founders and chapel benefactors, others interred there include University president Edmund Ezra Day and his wife, former New York Governor Alonzo Cornell and his wife, Jennie McGraw, her father John McGraw and her husband, Willard Fiske.[9][10]

Sage Chapel also serves as the home of the Cornell University Glee Club and Cornell University Chorus.

References

  1. ^ Cornell University - search
  2. ^ Re-Lighting a Historic Church Interior: Challenges at Cornell University's Sage Chapel by Viggo Bech Rambusch; Association for Preservation Technology Bulletin, Vol. 30, No. 2/3 (1999), pp. 56-59
  3. ^ Cornell Chronicle, "CURW, Sage Chapel host events to celebrate dual anniversaries" April 5, 2005
  4. ^ Cornell University - search
  5. ^ CURW - Sage Hall History
  6. ^ Re-Lighting a Historic Church Interior: Challenges at Cornell University's Sage Chapel by Viggo Bech Rambusch; Association for Preservation Technology Bulletin, Vol. 30, No. 2/3 (1999), pp. 56-59
  7. ^ CURW - Sage Hall History
  8. ^ CURW - Sage Hall History
  9. ^ Political Graveyard - Sage Chapel
  10. ^ CURW - Sage Hall History
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