I took this a couple of months ago on the campus of Bowdoin College here in Brunswick. The Chapel has a seating for 200.

With acoustics so impressive that professional ensembles have rented it for making recordings, the Chapel is an ideal space for choral, brass, and organ performances. Designed by architect Richard Upjohn after Romanesque models, it was completed in the early 1850s.

The Chapel, which has excellent acoustics for organ and a cappella choral music, is used by student groups, the Department of Music, and the Bowdoin International Music Festival for concerts. Alumni, faculty, and staff often hold weddings and memorial services there.

Two small pipe organs in the west gallery preceded the installation of the 1927 Austin organ, their opus 1507. The pipes and wind chest occupy the majority of the spacious east gallery, which formerly housed the College’s art collection. This three-manual electro-pneumatic instrument has 47 ranks with a total of 2,567 pipes. The organ was a gift of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis who also donated Bowdoin’s Curtis Pool (now Studzinski Recital Hall) and the Kotzschmar Memorial Organ at Merrill Auditorium in Portland.

The Chapel is home to a 1975 Cooper two-manual tracker organ in the style of the German Baroque, and a 2007 Steinway grand piano. The renovation of the Austin and the purchase