{"id":2114,"date":"2022-09-29T18:38:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T18:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/spiritualandreligiouslife\/chapel\/historical-information\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T17:28:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:28:35","slug":"historical-information","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/spiritualandreligiouslife\/chapel\/historical-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>A Building To Love Without Reserve<sup>1<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That was the goal of the Chapel\u2019s donor, William Gwynn Mather, class of 1877 \u2014and the architect chosen to achieve that lofty height was Philip Hubert Frohman, principal architect of the Washington National Cathedral. In creating the Trinity College Chapel, Frohman sought not merely the enclosure of space, but the realization of a timeless \u201cfour-dimensional\u201d work of art. Frohman said: \u201cBy the disposition of its material substance, it must enclose those who enter it in a way which will produce an effect upon their minds, which will cause their spirits to feel the presence and the reality of that which is not material and which cannot be seen by the mortal eye.\u201d<sup>2<\/sup> Frohman\u2019s goal\u2014 and achievement\u2014was not merely a Chapel which could be loved without reserve, but the realization of \u201ca love for Divine Perfection.\u201d<sup>3<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>The Trinity College Chapel is the unfinished masterpiece and final flowering of the American Gothic Revival. Soaring to a height of 163 feet, it is one of the world\u2019s great sacred structures and a well-loved landmark on the Hartford skyline. Designed to embrace the finest architectural elements from the 11th through the 15th centuries, it is an original work of art in which no imitation or copying occurs. It is an American original. Frohman declared: \u201cIn the years to come, and especially when the interior of the chapel is complete in all its beauty, we hope that it may be said of each of those who are responsible for the final result as did President Eliot [of Harvard University] when conferring an honorary degree upon Augustus Saint-Gaudens:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018He did not count the mortal years it takes to mould immortal forms.\u2019\u201d<sup>4<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<hr \/>\n<p>1 Trinity College Archives: William Gwynn Mather to Remsen Brinckerhoff Ogilby, President of Trinity College: 16 May 1929.<\/p>\n<p>2 Files of the Clerk of the Works Canon Richard T. Feller, Washington National Cathedral: an undated manuscript for an article by Philip Hubert Frohman.<\/p>\n<p>3 Trinity College Archives: Philip Hubert Frohman to William Gwynn Mather: 21 June 1929.<\/p>\n<p>4 National Cathedral Archives: Philip Hubert Frohman to President Remsen Brinckerhoff Ogilby: 24 March 1933.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Building To Love Without Reserve1 That was the goal of the Chapel\u2019s donor, William Gwynn Mather, class of 1877 \u2014and the architect chosen to achieve that lofty height was Philip Hubert Frohman, principal architect of the Washington National Cathedral. 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