Indiana
State Soldiers' Home
100
Years Ago
Chapel
and Assembly Hall
Source of information and photographs: 1901: Indiana
State Soldiers' Home, Lafayette
The Chapel and
Assembly Hall has a seating capacity of six hundred and is provided with
very comfortable opera chairs on both the main floor and gallery.
The Ministerial Association of Lafayette supplies a preacher every Sunday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, Sunday-school, prayer meeting and evening service
conducted by members of the Home.
Occasional entertainments
are held throughout the week.
In the basement of the
chapel is a library and amusement room. The library contains about
twelve hundred volumes and is well patronized. The amusement room
has a billiard table, a pool table, card tables, backgammon boards, checker
boards and other games for the amusement of the members.
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