Wheaton College, Illinois

Wheaton College is a private, interdenominational Christian college located in Wheaton, Illinois. It was founded in 1860.

Campus facilities

Wheaton's most recognizable building is Blanchard Hall, named after the school's first president, Jonathan Blanchard, who hoped to create a building much like ones seen on the campus of Oxford University. Blanchard, a staunch abolitionist, was also responsible for the school's new name; it had been founded in late 1853 as the Illinois Institute.

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Jonathan Blanchard - Oxford University - Abolitionist

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The campus includes the Billy Graham Center, named after the college's most well-known graduate. Controversial for several reasons including the architecture, the center has been described by one Wheaton professor as "a colonial on steroids." The BGC houses several evangelism institutes, a museum, a library, as well as the Wheaton College Graduate School.

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Wheaton College hosts the Marion E. Wade Center, an extensive research library and museum of the books and papers of seven British writers: C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, J.R.R. Tolkien, Owen Barfield, Dorothy L. Sayers, George MacDonald, and Charles Williams.

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C. S. Lewis - G. K. Chesterton - J.R.R. Tolkien - Owen Barfield - Dorothy L. Sayers - George MacDonald - Charles Williams

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In the fall of 2004 the Todd M. Beamer Student Center was completed. Beamer was a Wheaton alumnus, part of a small group of passengers that most likely thwarted disaster by storming the suicide hijackers and bringing down United Flight 93 in rural Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001.

Related Topics:
2004 - Todd M. Beamer - September 11, 2001

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