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region, since the demolition of Champaign’s Christian Science Student Center
in 1988.”
The chapel was built with funds from the trust of Joseph Lloyd Bache,
a schoolmaster with no descendents who compiled a modest fortune through
lifetime investments.
The Urbana-based architect Joseph Coble carried out
the design in accordance with Bache’s wishes – to design a modern
interpretation of a traditional English church. Cemetery trustees claimed
the demolition was necessary due to lack of funds to maintain the chapel,
which hadn’t been used for several years. The loss of this building has
raised for LPCI the issue of needing better surveys of historic and
architecturally important resources in rural areas, as well as surveys of
architecture of the recent past.
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