Binkley Chapel (Wake Forest, North Carolina)

 chapel, classroom

Binkley Chapel commands the center of the campus. Its tall spire is visible for several miles along every approach to Wake Forest. Work was begun on the chapel in 1942, but World War II prevented the completion of the interior. When the college moved to Winston-Salem in 1956, the work was resumed and completed in 1958. In 1959, a three-manual Reuter organ was given and installed as a memorial to Walter M. Williams of Burlington, North Carolina. In 1969, the Board of Trustees named the chapel in honor of the Seminary's second president, Dr. Olin T. Binkley. He was elected in 1963 and retired in 1974. The ground floor of the chapel was redesigned in 1982 and furnished as five modern classrooms and church music facilities, including organ and piano practice areas. In 1987, the chapel organ was renovated and enlarged to 70 ranks by the Schantz Organ Company, Orrville, Ohio. In 1998, the chapel platform was remodeled to make it more open and versatile.

This building houses the chapel for campus and its basement houses general purpose classroom and music practice rooms.

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