Sage Chapel was designed by the Reverend Charles Babcock , Professor of Architecture at Cornell , with stonework by local stone-carver Robert Richardson . The design has been significantly altered over the years . The original design featured a 75-foot tower with spire and belfry . An apse was added in 1898 for the bodies of Henry Williams Sage and his wife . The mosaic decoration of the apse was created by J&R Lamb Studios of New York ; preliminary designs for this work can be found in the Lamb Studios Archive in the Library of Congress . A north transept was addeed in 1903 . In 1940-41 , a west wing expansion and renovation added more space for a new choir loft and the current pipe organ , a 3-manual Aeolian-Skinner with 69 stops and an estimated 3858 speaking pipes . The organ incorporates several ranks of pipes from previous instruments , including two of the previous organs built in the chapel . The building includes Tiffany glass windows and a stained glass memorial to three civil rights workers ( one of whom was a Cornell alumnus , Michael Schwerner ) , murdered during Freedom Summer
three civil rights workers
Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner
Sage Chapel