Finding Fay: Cooper Chapel
Like E. Fay Jones's famous Thorncrown Chapel from 1980, the Mildred B. Cooper Memorial Chapel is fairly easy to find, given that the building has its own website with directions, the state has historical-marker signs along the roads leading to Bella Vista, Arkansas, and the chapel has even more signs pointing people in the right direction once visitors get closer. Completed in 1988, the Cooper Chapel is tucked behind a strip mall in a wooded area above the shores of Lake Norwood.
[The approach to Cooper Chapel at 504 Memorial Drive | Photo: Google Maps]
Comparisons to Jones's Thorncrown Chapel, his masterpiece completed in 1980, are bound to happen, especially with a building of almost the same size, serving a similar function, also located in Northwest Arkansas, and expressing many of the same formal characteristics (delicate structure, pitched roof, framing of wooded surrounding through glass walls, etc.). As at Thorncrown Chapel, one passes an office building before arriving at the Cooper Chapel, and like there I'm not sure if it was designed by Jones or not.
Although not as well known as Jones's Thorncrown Chapel, the Mildred B. Cooper Memorial Chapel (built by her family in her honor) is every bit as exhilarating and calming as his earlier masterpiece.
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