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Rainier Chapter House (1920–1925), Daughters of the American Revolution, 800 East Roy Street, Seattle, Washington, Daniel Riggs Huntington, architect. [9] Washington's Birthday Celebration Association Building, 1819 East Hillside Road, Laredo, Texas. Mount Vernon Office (1987), Arlington Cemetery, 2900 State Road, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania.
A chapter house or chapterhouse is a building or room that is part of a cathedral, monastery or collegiate church in which meetings are held. When attached to a cathedral, the cathedral chapter meets there. In monasteries, the whole community often met there daily for readings and to hear the abbot or senior monks talk.
The first chapter house built by a women's fraternity was the one Alpha Phi erected at Syracuse University in 1886. [ 6 ] Many colleges eventually came to support fraternity and sorority housing as they allowed increased enrollment without the construction of costly dormitories.
It stands in the centre of buildings including a library with a collection of rare books and manuscripts and a chapter house decorated with images of the martyrdom of the monks' predecessors. The Great Cloister, about 550 metres (1,800 ft) long, one of the longest in the world, connects the 34 hermitages to the church and the other buildings ...
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The chapter house now holds five fresco lunettes by Pontormo from the cloister, damaged by exposure to the elements. The charterhouse inspired Le Corbusier for his urban projects. [1] The monastery houses the Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino, an Italian non-profit cultural institute. [2]
Hervey Ely House, also known as the Daughters of the American Revolution Chapter House, is a historic home located at Rochester in Monroe County, New York. It was built about 1837 in the Greek Revival style. It is a 2½ story brick structure covered in stucco. The Hervey Ely House in 1967
View over the former Cologne Charterhouse with the Carthusian church (St. Barbara's). To the right are the conventual buildings, while to the left behind the church is the red-brick chapter house. In front of the church are the sacristy, the Lady Chapel and the Angel Chapel. The great cloister once stood on the piece of ground behind.