Name/Title
Adoration Chapel, Sisters of Benedict Convent, Clyde, Missouri, 1927Entry/Object ID
2007.33.922ACDescription
Adoration Chapel, Sisters of Benedict Convent, Clyde, Missouri, 1927. This in not an Eckel building. Eckel had written to the Sisters on April 7, 1928 to ask if he might have photos to include in a book "Missouri's Contribution to American Architecture", noting that several of his buildings were included in the book.
Mother M. Dolorosa provided a photo of the exterior and interior, attributing the architectural design to Father Lukas (April 10, 1928). They also included a description of the chapel as copied below.
07.33.922A Exterior, Northeast view of Adoration Chapel, bell tower, surrounding buildings and grounds, August, 1927
07.33.922B Interior, Close up, 1/4 of nave area w/ 4 nuns at prayer, mosaics, statues, and nun stalls. , 1927
07.33.922C Interior, longer view of nave and sanctuary (nuns' stalls). This photo was taken in 1909 before electric lights were installed.
07.33.922D Letters between the Convent and Eckel, typed description of Chapel.
'A landmark in Nodaway County is the Convent and Chapel of the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration at Clyde, Missouri. The large Convent building of red brick, trimmed with Bedford stone, is build in substantial monastic style in the form of a quadrangle. The Adoration Chapel is constructed of Bedford stone in Romanesque style. To the late Rev. Father Lukas Etlin, O.S.B., a member of the Benedictine Abbey, Conception, Missouri, is due the scholarly designing and successful execution of this house of religious worship. Reverend Father Lukas was not only an artist, but an amateur architect as well. His life for thirty-five years was identified with the Benedictine Convent at Clyde, Missouri.
Great care was exercised that the interior as well as the exterior of the building be constructed in a solid and substantial manner. In view of this, the vaulted ceiling is of brick, and the pillars with their bases and capitals are of stone. Eight of these pillars are of dark green pearl granite imported from Aberdeen, Scotland. The principal pictures are of masic. These pictures have in the course of centuries proved of great excellence, and are at present probably the only kind that resist the ravages of time. In the nave are eight of these picture with life-size figures, two more are placed in the rear of the chapel, and the sanctuary also contains two of a larger size. All are executed according to the renowned Art School of Beuron. The conspicuous mosaic above the high altar is twenty feet in height and sixteen feet in width. The central figure is a life-size representation of Christ with the Sacred Host on a back ground of gold.
At present there are only three places in the United States which have a variety of artistic mosaic pictures: the library in Washington, the chapel of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and the Adoration Chapel at Clyde, Missouri. Mosaic pictures, being works of art, are imported free of duty.
The high altar in the Adoration Chapel is constructed of pure white Carrara marble, artistically carved. It is embellished with six mosaic panels and four precious metal-embossed symbols. Three side altars are also of white marble. The beauty of the Munich statues of great Benedictine saints erected in various parts of the Chapel frequently elicits the admiration of many a scholarly beholder. Other features of excellence are the mosaic stations, the unique silver sanctuary lamps and the beautiful stained glass windows made by the celebrated Tyrolese Art Glass Company of Innsbruck, Tyrol. The stalls are of golden oak. The beauty of the artistic decoration is unsurpassed. To appreciate its true value the Chapel must not only be viewed , but studied. In fact, by those who have traveled widely this Chapel has been pronounced not only, humanly speaking, a worthy temple of God, but likewise a temple of art."Collection
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ClydeState/Province
MissouriNotes
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Edmond Jacques Eckel
