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Jane E. Putnam Memorial Chapel

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Church in 1857, and Jane organized Eau Claire's first public library in 1875. Before Jane died in 1907, she asked that a chapel be built for the people of Eau Claire, to be used for services and to hold the bodies of those who died in winter until the ground thawed. The year after Jane died, Henry
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The apse section in back has 24 receiving vaults for temporary storage of bodies during winter, but these are no longer used. Services are no longer held in the chapel either. It is now used primarily for storage.
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Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin
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The couple was generous in the community. They helped finance construction of First
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin
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obtained a half acre in Forest Hill Cemetery and had the chapel constructed.
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Inside, an aisle runs down the center. On the east wall of the main
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in 1832 and came to Eau Claire in 1857. In 1858 she married
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James Stephen Hoover and Elizabeth Borland Memorial Chapel
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Eau Claire, Wisconsin
44°48′30″N 91°29′18″W / 44.80827°N 91.48832°W / 44.80827; -91.48832
Gothic Revival
99001663
Neogothic
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
National Register of Historic Places
Oxford, New York
Henry C. Putnam
land surveyor
Cornell University
land office
Presbyterian
Neogothic
lancet-pointed
buttressed
pinnacle
barrel tile
parapets
gable
apse
hip roof
nave
hammer-posts
James Stephen Hoover and Elizabeth Borland Memorial Chapel
Our Lady of Sorrows Chapel
National Register of Historic Places listings in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin
"Putnam Memorial Chapel"

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