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Walking Tour Continued On the first floor of Eliot House is the Elizabeth Peabody Room. Our babies and toddlers enjoy playing in this room. Elizabeth Peabody was an innovative childhood educator who worked with Channing, Emerson, and Bronson Alcott in Salem, Massachusetts. She later owned a bookstore that was a gathering place for the transcendentalists of Boston. Walk up the stairs to the Von Stilli Chapel, named after Alfred Von Stilli, minister of the church from 1939 to 1948. The original chapel was in an upstairs room over the south end of Daniel Hall. When Eliot House was built, a new chapel was constructed, retaining the name of this dynamic minister.
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In the back of the room are a set of chimes donated by Violette Dwyer in memory of her husband, J.J Dwyer. Mrs. Dwyer was the director of religious education from some time in the 1940s until 1961. Ringing the chimes is one of the favorite jobs of children to begin chapel services.
The beautiful chalice window in the front of the chapel was given by Lana Henson in memory of her daughter, Chelsea, who died suddenly in 1992 at the age of 12. Chelsea was very active in the church school and in the community as a budding performer. |
