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Founded in the last quarter of the 19th century, Eureka Springs is a small health resort in northwest Arkansas. Thorncrown Chapel stands on a stony sloping site beneath the maple and oak trees of the Ozark Mountains, some 3 kilometres from the hotels and resort guests. The dimensions of the building -18.28 metres long, 7.31 metres wide, 14.63 metres high - suggest a hall and processional church. And indeed, a central aisle runs the length of the building, with rows of pews to the left and right; at the end a low podium with two pulpits but no altar.
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Stegers, R. (2008). Thorncrown Chapel. In: Sacred Buildings. Design Manuals. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8276-6_11
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