All Saints Chapel, University of the South (Prints)

All Saints’ Chapel is perhaps the best example of the late Gothic Revival architecture in Tennessee. Although planning began in the 1850s, the chapel was completed in two phases between 1904 and 1959. In 1904, the university hired architect Ralph Adams Cram to design a new chapel. His firm, Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson ained a national reputation for their expansion of the military academy at West Point in 1902, including the Cadet Chapel. The same firm completed the designs for Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City.

Ground was broken in 1904 and the cornerstone was laid in 1905. By 1907 the outer walls were finished up to the level of the clerestory. It was not until 1959, when McCrady was appointed university vice-chancellor, that the building was finally finished.