Marshall University Architectural Guide
by Carlos Bozzoli, Architect
The John Deaver Drinko Academy

Campus Christian Center

  
 
   
Current use:
The building contains a chapel, conference rooms, fellowship hall and kitchen, lounge, office space for campus ministers, work shop rooms, and the Stewart H. Smith reli- gious library.
Location: 
Fifth Avenue besides the Memorial Student Center.
Designers:
Dean & Dean, Architects, Huntington
Completed: 
1961
Name: 
The library is named to honor Stewart H. Smith, President (1946 to 1968) of Marsh all College and then Marshall University.

The general character of this religious building comes from its lightness, perhaps due to the use of light metal structure and aluminum windows, and grey-silvered panels cladding. The chapel is performed as a triangular prism, that intercrosses a rectangular one. The building is related with a trend that developed in the American West, imported by Richard Neutra . The designers were particularly interested in producing effects of light and shadow due to zigzag patterns at the brick walls. Wide, ample panel of transparent.