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St. James Memorial Chapel (Howe, Indiana)

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
01000989

Added to NRHP
  
16 September 2001

Built
  
1902 (1902)

Opened
  
1902

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Location
  
IN 9, just S of Cty Rd. 600 N., Howe Military School Howe, Indiana

Architectural style
  
Tudor Revival architecture

St. James Memorial Chapel is a historic Episcopal chapel located on the grounds of Howe Military School, in Howe, Indiana. It was built in 1902, and is a one-story, Tudor Revival style brick building sheathed with a limestone veneer. It measures 152 feet by 64 feet, and has additions made in 1909, 1914 (Mother's Chapel), and 1955. The building features a two-story, crenellated corner tower.

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It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on September 16, 2001.

St. Mark's Episcopal Church

St. Mark's Episcopal Church worships in the chapel.

Chapel crypt burials

Buried in the chapel's crypt are the founders of Howe Military School, John Badlam Howe, (1812–1883) and Frances Marie (Glidden) Howe, his wife. Also buried there are the first four bishops of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana and the wives of three of them, as follows:

  • 1. John Hazen White (1849–1925), first bishop, (and also the fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Indiana and his wife, Louise (Holbrook) White (1858–1928);
  • 2. Campbell Gray (1879–1944), second bishop, and his wife, Virginia (Morgan) Gray (1886–1978);
  • 3. Reginald Mallett (1893–1965), third bishop, and his wife, Lucy Atkinson Murchison Mallett (1898–1959); and
  • 4. Walter C. Klein, fourth bishop (1904–1980).

    • Other local sites on the National Register of Historic Places

    Other sites in Howe on the National register are:

  • John Badlam Howe Mansion, which is also known as the Howe Military School Rectory or the Administration Building, located next to the chapel
  • Lima Township School
  • Star Milling and Electric Company Historic District
  • Samuel P. Williams House

    • References

    St. James Memorial Chapel (Howe, Indiana) Wikipedia
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