Western Reserve College Chapel, Hudson, Ohio

Western Reserve College Chapel
Hudson, Ohio 1836

Western Reserve College opened in 1826, the first institution of higher education in the Connecticut Western Reserve. The college was closely affiliated with the Presbyterian Church, for which it educated missionaries and ministers. In the 1820s and 1830s, the College became an important center of antislavery activity. Today the chapel is used for musical and other performances of the Western Reserve Academy.

Architectural Style: Georgian

Address: 115 College Street, Hudson, Ohio
Located on the Western Reserve Academy campus

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"This Chapel, in architecture
and tradition recalling Old Yale
College, the ideals of which inspired
the establishment of higher learning
in the Western Reserve, was dedicated in 1836 to the service of
Almighty God."