Texas Woman's University
Texas
More than three hundred art students built the stained glass, doors and woodwork of a Denton chapel that Eleanor Roosevelt came to dedicate.
The Little Chapel in the Woods went up in 1939 on the Texas Woman's University campus in Denton. Eleanor Roosevelt dedicated it. The builders were recruits from the National Youth Administration, working to a design by the Denton architect O'Neill Ford. Everything decorative inside came from the students themselves. More than three hundred of them in the college's fine arts programs made the stained glass, the lighting, the woodwork, the doors, the ceiling beams and the floors. The windows show women nursing, teaching, dancing, making music. The theme is women ministering to human needs. The Texas Society of Architects has called it one of the state's finest pieces of architecture. It is still open to the public every day, still used for recitals, baptisms and weddings. The original bridal book holds the names of thousands of couples married there between 1939 and 1979. It sits on display in the campus library.
This is the first of 3 parts. The rest runs about 3 minutes and is read to you as you drive past. Hear the whole piece.
Built in 1939 and dedicated by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, the Little Chapel in the Woods has been named one of Texas' most outstanding architectural achievements by the Texas Society of Architects.
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