Campus Facilities
Opened in 1929, the buildings of Seabury are styled in the Tudor Gothic style, similar to those of Oxford University in England.
Seabury's main reading room and library, the Gregory Library, was the gift of Mrs. Robert B. Gregory. The Gregory Library, in conjunction with Garrett-Evangelical Seminary, has an outstanding collection of 320,000 volumes and subscriptions to 1,500 periodicals. On the third floor of the Gregory Library is The Hibbard Oriental Library, the gift of Mrs. Lydia Hibbard. This library and small museum contains some 10,000 volumes including a number of rare documents especially in Egyptology and Assyriology. The museum collection includes Egyptian objects and a mummy. This collection is considered to be an outstanding one for the Mid-West.
The Horlick Refectory is the home of the dining room for the Seabury community. It was a gift of the Horlick Malted Milk family and remodeled and enlarged in 1954. The Refectory is also home to the portraits of Seabury's Deans.
The Chapel of Saint John the Divine was built as a memorial to the Rt. Rev. Charles Palmerston Anderson, Bishop of Chicago for 30 years and at his death, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. The Chapel includes the 35 bell Laurance Hearne Armour Memorial Carillon. 109 feet above the chapel rises the spire with a bronze Jerusalem cross, patterned after the spire of St. Cross' Church, Sussex, England. The tower was inspired by Magdalen College, Oxford, England.
