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...
Factor uncovers the architectural mysteries of Knox College's beloved Old Main. Knox College's Old Main - a national landmark and the only extant buil...