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Kresge Chapel

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Creator(s)
architectural firm: Eero Saarinen & Associates (American, 1950-1961), sculptor: aluminum spire by Theodore Roszak (American, 1907-1981), sculptor: altar sculpture by Harry Bertoia (American, 1915-1978)
Time period
creation date: 1953-1955
Location
Site: Cambridge (Massachusetts, United States)
Cultural context
American
Description
MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139
interior, altar with Harry Bertoia's reredos, ca. 1961
Work type
Chapel
Medium
aluminum
brick
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Rights
(c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, photograph by G. E. Kidder Smith
Access rights
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
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