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Constructed: December 1932 and December 1933
Location: Main Hall Green
The first ice chapel on campus, built in December 1932 and pictured at left, was 18 or 19 feet long, ten or fifteen feet high, and thatched with evergreens. Constructed with 35 tons of ice donated by Lutz Ice Company, it featured interior lighting.
The second ice chapel, built in December 1933, was designed by Appleton architect, Raymond N. LeVee. Louis Baker, professor of modern languages at the College, informed The Lawrentian that the measurements were proportionally almost that of La Sainte Chapelle in Paris built in 1248 by St. Louis.
LeVee's chapel was 26 feet long, 14 feet 7 inches wide, not including the buttresses which made it 21 feet wide. The ice, from Lutz Ice Company, was in units measuring 10"x22"x58", weighing 435 pounds. The total amount of ice used was 65 tons. The roof, like the first chapel, was evergreens. The builders were men hired by the Association of Commerce sponsored by the Appleton Post-Crescent. It was lit by 22,000 watts of red, white, and blue lights.
Unseasonable rain robbed the second chapel of much of its beauty, and it was dismantled early in January.
There was possibly a third ice chapel, but no documentation exists.