The Marquand Chapel was the third center for religious observance on the Princeton campus.  The Nassau Hall prayer hall was used for services until the first freestanding chapel was built in 1847.  In 1882, a new, larger chapel was given by and named for Henry Marquand, a New York banker, chief benefactor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and father of Allan Marquand ’1874.  All the windows in the Marquand Chapel were made of stained glass, several of them by Tiffany.  In 1920, sparks from a raging fire in nearby Dickinson Hall reached the chapel, and it too was burned to smoldering ruins.  Until the University Chapel opened in 1928, students attended their compulsory religious services in Alexander Hall.

• To learn more about Allan Marquand, see Café Vivian picture #6 and 108.
  
  
• To learn more about Princeton’s chapels, see quotation #19 and Café Vivian picture #8, 16, and 40.
  
  
• To learn more about campus fires, see icon #5 and Café Vivian picture #4, 8, 46, 61, and 78.
  
  
• To learn more about Princeton’s vanished buildings, see Café Vivian picture #6, 8, 25, 37, 40, 46, 48, 62, 78, and 127.
  
  
• To learn more about campus grounds and buildings, see icon #1, 5, and 8, quotation #5, 7, 9, 28, and 39, and Café Vivian picture #4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 16, 20, 25, 30, 33, 37, 40, 46, 48, 54, 61, 62, 67, 68, 71, 78, 85, 87, 95, 100, 101, 102, 104, 105, 108, 109, 111, 118, 124, 127, and 133.

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