Church
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
5850 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Gothic Revival university chapel with a two-hundred-foot tower and the world's largest carillon of bronze bells.
This guide to Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at the University of Chicago opens with a question: why did an eighteen-and-a-half-ton bell toll in 1932 over a building that refused to carry its donor's name? It traces John D. Rockefeller Sr.'s fortune and reputation after the Supreme Court broke up Standard Oil, architect Bertram Goodhue's Gothic design, and the seventy-two-bell carillon hung in the tower. Listen for how the bells were arranged so the heaviest wouldn't drown out the rest.
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