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SPEER CHAPEL
Formerly
Harmon General Hospital Chapel
Longview, Texas
Recorded Texas
Historic Landmark
2200 S. Mobberly Ave.
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Subject: Harmon General Hospital
Now known as Speer Chapel, it is located on campus of LeTourneau University
in Longview, Texas.
It is still used for student prayer services, special events and weddings.
It is the last WWII
era building located on the campus. - Maryanne
Gobble, December 2010 |
Historical Marker
Harmon
General Hospital Chapel
Authorized by the
U. S. Army n 1942 and named for Col. Daniel Warrick Harmon, Harmon
General Hospital was in operation from November 1942 to December 1945.
This ecumenical chapel opened in January 1943. Protestant, Catholic
and Jewish clergy served here. The hospital property was acquired
by the Le Tourneau Foundation in 1946 for use as a college. Despite
several years as a storage facility, the chapel retained enough of
its original fabric for renovation in the late 1950s and again in
1983 when it was formally named Speer Chapel. The structure remains
a well-preserved vernacular chapel. Its notable features include a
front-facing gabled roof, center projecting entrance with the roof
below a central steeple, and wood sash windows.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark- 1997 |
Harmon
General Hospital Chapel historical marker
Photo courtesy Maryanne
Gobble |
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