The Hill School Chapel

Pennsylvania · USA · Church

The chapel was a gift from the alumni of this elite boarding school, built in a deliberately dark Romanesque style. The story about John Meigs is not true.

The chapel at the Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania was built in the late 1800s as a gift from the alumni of the school, in a heavy Romanesque style that visitors describe as dark before anyone mentions a ghost.

The story students tell is that John Meigs, one of the school's early headmasters, suffered from severe depression and hanged himself from a light in the chapel.

That is not what happened. Meigs was a real and significant figure in American secondary education, he led the school for decades, and he died in 1911 of illness. No suicide appears in any account of his life.

We set the correction out plainly because the claim concerns a named real person whose descendants and whose institution are still here.

The chapel is part of a working school and is not open to visitors.

FAQ

Hvor ligger The Hill School Chapel?

The Hill School Chapel ligger i Pennsylvania, USA.