CHANGING LEHIGH
The first brick of Lehigh's Packer Memorial Church was laid on Founder's Day, October 8, 1885. The church was a gift of Mary Packer Cummings, one of Asa Packer's daughters.
1885
 Packer Memorial Church 1890Packer Memorial Church. | Lehigh University Photograph Collection, Special Collections. |  Packer Memorial Church 1890Inside Packer Memorial Church. | Lehigh University Photograph Collection, Special Collections. |  Packer Memorial Church 1893Packer Memorial Church. | Lehigh University Photograph Collection, Special Collections. |
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 Packer Memorial Church 1893A view of Packer Memorial Church with the smoke from the steel mill visible. | Lehigh University Photograph Collection, Special Collections. |  Packer Memorial Church 1900Packer Memorial Church. | Lehigh University Photograph Collection, Special Collections. |  Packer Memorial Church 1910Packer Memorial Church. | Lehigh University Photograph Collection, Special Collections. |
 Packer Memorial Church 1920Inside Packer Memorial Church. | Lehigh University Photograph Collection, Special Collections. |  Packer Memorial Church 1920Packer Memorial Church. | Lehigh University Photograph Collection, Special Collections. |  Packer Memorial Church 1937Packer Memorial Church. | Lehigh University Photograph Collection, Special Collections. |
 Packer Memorial Church 1940Inside Packer Memorial Church. | Lehigh University Photograph Collection, Special Collections. |  Packer Memorial Church 1946A procession outside Packer Memorial Church. | Lehigh University Photograph Collection, Special Collections. |  Packer Memorial Church 1950Packer Memorial Church. | Lehigh University Photograph Collection, Special Collections. |
 Packer Memorial Church 1950Packer Memorial Church. | Lehigh University Photograph Collection, Special Collections. |  Packer Memorial Church 1950Packer Memorial Church. | Lehigh University Photograph Collection, Special Collections. |  Packer Memorial Church 1950Inside Packer Memorial Church. | Lehigh University Photograph Collection, Special Collections. |
 Packer Memorial Church 1950An organ inside Packer Memorial Church. | Lehigh University Photograph Collection, Special Collections. |  Packer Memorial Church 1972Packer Memorial Church as seen through a sculpture that once stood on campus. | Lehigh University Photograph Collection, Special Collections. |  Packer Memorial Church 1988Two people walk by Packer Memorial Church. | Lehigh University Photograph Collection, Special Collections. |
 Packer Memorial Church 1990Inside Packer Memorial Church. | Lehigh University Photograph Collection, Special Collections. |
PACKER
MEMORIAL
Lehigh's Packer Memorial Church was completed on Founder's Day, October 13, 1887.
1887
The Bach Festival was held in the Packer Memorial Church for the first time in 1911.
1911
A new organ and a new altar were added to Packer Memorial Church in 1950. The rennovation, which also included money for redecoration, was a gift from the W. P. Starkey family.
1950
1965
A Roman Catholic Mass took place in Packer Memorial Church for the first time at Lehigh in 1965.
1969
A new coffee house, named "The Catacomb," opened in the basement of Packer Memorial Church on February 1, 1969. The coffee shope was later transformed in 1980 into the Graduate Student Center.
Lehigh's Packer Memorial Church was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
