King Chapel Renovation News & Updates
April 24, 2012On April 21 Jonathan Brand was installed as Cornell's 15th President. In a speech before hundreds in King Chapel, Brand spoke about the value of the liberal arts, his passion for Cornell College and his hopes for the future.
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November 29, 2011Work will begin this fall to add an elevator addition near the southeast entrance to King Chapel, the historic centerpiece of Cornell College’s campus. The elevator is part of an ongoing renovation to the first building on campus named to the National Register of Historic places. Workers have taken soil samples for the elevator’s foundation [...]
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October 14, 2011A longtime elementary teacher who also taught education at Cornell has left the college nearly $400,000, half of which will go toward restoring the college’s historic King Chapel. The other half of the gift from the estate of Helen Danforth ’42 will go toward the college’s other building priorities. Danforth, who died in July 2010, [...]
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August 23, 2011One of the most visible—and audible—updates to the Hilltop this fall will be felt throughout town as the 1882 King Chapel clock is ticking again and the carillon is ringing. The Seth Thomas clock once again keeps time over campus and rings on the hour after being shut off for a year, and the carillons [...]
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August 10, 2010Jeff Mick of Facilities management, gives an overview of the King Chapel renovations so far and what remains to be done.Work started about five weeks ago on the first part of a $2.5 million renovation of the 125-year-old chapel. This summer, workers have been removing the slate tile from the roof and shoring up the [...]
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June 29, 2010Three alumni have pledged a total of $50,000 toward the renovation Cornell College’s historic King Chapel, the centerpiece of campus. Joanne Findley ’50 of Macomb, Ill. has pledged $25,000, as have Mark Hanawalt ’74 and his wife, Barbara Norton Hanawalt ’74 of Waverly, Iowa. Their gifts will help the college’s $2.5 million restoration of the [...]
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March 1, 2010The State Historical Society has awarded Cornell College $100,000 challenge grant for the restoration of King Chapel, the iconic 19th-century building that dominates Mount Vernon’s skyline. The Historic Site Preservation Grant is set to fund repairs to the chapel’s roof, walls and masonry, including tying together the east and west walls, repointing the attic walls, [...]
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October 13, 2009MOUNT VERNON – As part of their 50th reunion gift, the Cornell College class of 1959 has donated over $220,000 in cash and pledges to the college for King Chapel renovations and the annual fund. “This gift represents the class’s commitment not only to the ongoing budget of the college, but to King Chapel and [...]
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September 9, 2008MOUNT VERNON – A $60,000 gift from Linda and Truman Jordan, professor emeritus of chemistry, will help endow the Cornell College chaplain position and further improvements to King Chapel. Jordan is an honorary alumnus of Cornell who began his career at Cornell in 1966. He was granted emeritus status in 2002 and has remained active [...]
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July 28, 2008MOUNT VERNON – A Cornell alumnus has donated $250,000 to the King Chapel renovation in honor of his late wife, Ruth “Gussie” Ohlsen Warden. Charles Warden and his wife both graduated from Cornell in 1941. Charles went on to a successful career in law and real estate. The gift will fund the Ruth Ohlsen Warden [...]
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July 16, 2008MOUNT VERNON – A Cornell alumna’s $130,000 donation will help renovate Cornell College’s historic King Chapel and repair the aging organ. Lois Wilkinson Sieben, a 1938 graduate of Cornell, learned to play the organ and the piano at the college, and went on to become a church organist and piano teacher. King Chapel will be [...]
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