St. Luke's Chapel; a chapel building dedicated to Telfair Hodgson

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Legacies Classification
Memorial Place
Memorial Type
Named Building
Memorial Context
Enslaver
Lost Cause
Memorialized Subject
Hodgson, Telfair
Title
St. Luke's Chapel; a chapel building dedicated to Telfair Hodgson
Background and Context
St. Luke's Chapel, originally the chapel for Sewanee's School of Theology, was dedicated in 1907 in recognition of the Rev. Telfair Hodgson, who came to Sewanee in 1878 to serve as dean of the Theology Department. He was elected Vice-Chancellor the next year. Hodgson had served in the Confederate Army as both soldier and chaplain. Frances Potter Hodgson gave the money to construct St. Luke’s Chapel as a memorial to her late husband. Today the structure serves as a concert venue.

To learn more about the Hodgsons, see the biographical page for Telfair Hodgson.
Physical Description
A stone church on the campus of the University of the South.
Date created, installed or dedicated
1907
Historical Period
1890-1945: Era of the Lost Cause, Jim Crow legal segregation and discrimination, and organized anti-Black racism
Location: Institution, City, State
University of the South; Sewanee, Tennessee
Learn More About this Subject
To learn more about the Hodgsons, see the biographical page for Telfair Hodgson linked below.
Hodgson, Telfair

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