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Title
Civil
War
Chapel
Photograph
Subject
Architecture
Military Ohio
Chapels
National Register of Historic Places
Place
Akron (Ohio)
Summit County (Ohio)
Description
The
Civil
War
Memorial
Chapel
at the
Akron
Rural
Cemetery
(also
known
as
Glendale
Cemetery)
was
dedicated
on
Memorial
Day
,
1876
to
honor
Union
soldiers
who
died
in the
Civil
War
. The
Gothic-style
chapel
was
designed
by
prominent
architect
Frank
O
.
Weary
, and was
built
with
funds
raised
by the
Buckley
Post
of the
Grand
Army
of the
Republic
, a
veterans
'
organization
.
Inside
the
chapel
are
fourteen
marble
tablets
engraved
with the
names
of
852
Akron
soldiers
who
died
during
the
war
. The
chapel
,
listed
on the
National
Register
of
Historic
Places
,
features
stained
glass
windows
from
Scotland
,
floor
tiles
imported
from
England
, and
ceiling
timbers
of
butternut
. This
6
"
x
8.5
"
(15.24
x
21.59
cm)
photograph
is
from a
collection
of
original
photos
that were
taken
in
1891
to
provide
a
reference
for the
drawings
that
appear
in
Fifty
Years
and
Over
of
Akron
and
Summit
County
by
Samuel
A.
Lane
,
published
in
1892
. The
building
is
listed
on the
National
Register
of
Historic
Places
Creator
Lane, Samuel A.
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/database/histpres.html (for more information about the National Register)
Date of Original
1892
Source
Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution
Akron-Summit County Public Library
Rights
For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html;
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om442_889037_001.tif
Image Height
5953
Image Width
4705
File Size
4374.038 KB
Format
picture
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