Boynton Chapel, 7590 Boynton Lane, Baileys Harbor, Door County, WI
Summary
2009 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Third Place
Significance: Located on the northern shores of Lake Michigan, in the state of Wisconsin, is an isolated retreat center with a small, Scandinavian inspired chapel. It was conceived and built in the 1930s by a Chicago immigrant couple who had no training in architecture or construction. This small unusual chapel exists today as a profound, and highly personal attempt to combine architecture and nature in a simple, transcendent spiritual relationship.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1472
Survey number: HABS WI-375
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Jarosz, Matthew, faculty sponsor
Chou, Alex, delineator
Gates, Nick, delineator
Hanisch, Max, field team
Klopfer, Scott, delineator
Leigeb, Nick, field team
Lese, Jaime, delineator
Majerus, Brian, field team
Mullholland, Jessica, delineator
Olsen, Andrew, delineator
Oskey, Tas, field team
Rathod, Khyati, delineator
Sahnow, Eric, delineator
Shaughnessy, Steven, delineator
Verch, Emily, field team
Zywicki, Nathan, delineator
Lawrence University, sponsor
Buechel, Mark, historian
Weiss, Donna, historian
Breseman, Mark, historian
Location
baileys harbor, 45.03794, -87.12974
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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