Chapel in the Sky: Knox College's Old Main and Its Masonic Architect

ISBN-13: 9780875804156 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 180 str.

R. Lance Factor

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Factor uncovers the architectural mysteries of Knox College's beloved Old Main. Knox College's Old Main - a national landmark and the only extant building that was a site of the Lincoln-Douglas debates - is a campus treasure with a secret. Built in 1857, Old Main was designed by Charles Ulricson, a Swedish-born immigrant who was trained by Freemasons. In Chapel in the Sky, Knox faculty member Lance Factor decodes the symbols of this beloved building and explores how an ardently anti-Mason administration came to hire Ulricson. The mysterious Masonic architect left his legacy on both Knox's Old Main and the Augustana Lutheran Church in Andover, Illinois. Ulricson (1816-1887), born to an elite family in Stockholm, emigrated to the United States in 1835, arriving in New York City with empty pockets. Ulricson found work as a draftsman in the firm of Ithiel Town and Alexander Jackson Davis, America's premier antebellum architects and the leaders of the Greek, Gothic, and Tuscan revivals.

Built in 1857, Knox College's Old Main was designed by Charles Ulricson, a Swedish-born immigrant who was trained by Freemasons. This book decodes the symbols of this beloved building and explores how an ardently anti-Mason administration came to hire Ulricson.