Thursday, November 12, 2009

I almost forgot about posting today!
Anyway, this is St. Joan of Arc Chapel. It's the oldest building in the Western Hemisphere that is still used for its original purpose. Apparently, the French family who owned it moved to America and brought it with them, brick by brick. It got passed down the family, but eventually it got to the part of the family that was no longer Catholic, but Protestant. So they were living in Milwaukee and told Marquette they could have it. Or maybe they told Marquette the school could have it and THEN had it shipped over from France. I'm not sure. Either way, it was built in the 1500s in France but is now the Chapel in the middle of campus behind the library.
I feel like I've talked about this before.

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