Pettit Memorial Chapel

1100 N. Main St., Belvidere, Illinois. County/parish: Boone.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 01, 1978. NRIS 78001112.

1 contributing building.

From Wikipedia:

Pettit Memorial Chapel

Pettit Memorial Chapel or Pettit Chapel was designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and constructed in 1907. The Pettit Chapel is located in the Belvidere Cemetery in Belvidere, Illinois, United States, which is in Boone County. The cemetery was chartered in 1837 and contains 13,000 known graves. The chapel was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places December 1, 1978. The Pettit Chapel is an example of Frank Lloyd Wright's famed Prairie Style. It is the only funerary structure designed by Wright to be built in his lifetime.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891724

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