The Council of Independent Colleges: Historic Campus Architecture Project

William H. Danforth Chapel

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William H. Danforth Chapel, Florida Southern College

Institution Name: Florida Southern College
Original/Historic Place Name: William H. Danforth Chapel
Location on Campus: West Campus - Johnson Ave.
Date(s) of Construction:

1955	original construction Wright, Frank Lloyd

Designer: Frank Lloyd Wright
Type of Place: Individual building
Style: Modern/post-WWII (Glossary)
Significance: architecture, landscape
Narrative: see below
References: see below

Materials:

Foundation: concrete

Walls: concrete textile block

Roof: copper sheet

Function:

ca. 1955-present (2006)

chapel

Narrative:
This building was constructed just to the southwest of the Pfeiffer Chapel. It is a small concrete and steel structure containing an apse of narrow vertical windows of colored glass. The building is topped by a low gable roof with a sharp sweep at the eaves.

References:

Florida Southern College. Historic American Buildings Survey report and photos. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Interior/National Park Service, [n.d.].

Florida Southern College: The First Hundred Years. Lakeland, FL: Florida Southern College, 1985.

Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly 12, no. 3 (2001).

Little, J. Rodney, and Phillip A. Werndli. Florida Southern College Architectural District. National Register of Historic Places designation report. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Interior/National Park Service, 1975.

Rogers, Steven B. "The Frank Lloyd Wright Campus at Florida Southern College: A Child of the Sun." Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly 12 (Summer 2001): 4-23.

Smalling, Walter, Jr. William H. Danforth Chapel [Florida Southern College]. Historic American Buildings Survey photographs. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Interior/National Park Service, 1979.