Emory
Chapel, located on the northeast corner of West and Pomfret Streets,
was built in 1858 as a Methodist church intended specifically for
the College’s religious community. The building was designed
by Thomas Balbirnie in Victorian Gothic style, and was constructed
at a cost of just over $10,000. Emory Female College used the
chapel from 1863 until 1866.
In 1877, Dickinson College assumed the debts
of the church and converted the chapel into the Grammar School, which
remained there until 1886. Four years later, Emory Chapel was
leased to the Dickinson Law School, which utilized the building until
the completion of Trickett Hall in 1917. The College finally sold
Emory Chapel to the United Brethren Church in 1919, and it was torn
down shortly thereafter.