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Green-Wood Chapel Green-Wood Cemetery Brooklyn, New York Green-Wood cemetery’s magnificent Indiana limestone chapel, built in 1911 is currently being restored. Architects Warren and Wetmore, famous for designing Steinway Hall and Grand Central Station, modeled the Green-Wood chapel after Tom Tower, at the Great Quad at Christchurch College, Oxford. Tom Tower was designed by famed (many say the most famous English architect ever), Christopher Wren (1632-1723). Wren received most of his commissions through the Royal Office of Works, however, Tom Tower was an independent commission. Wren was commissioned by John Fell, the Dean of Christchurch College, to design the gatehouse building, one the complex of buildings that formed The Great Quad. Wren’s adventurous Gothic design included a bulky octagonal tower designed to house a seven ton bell called “Great Tom”. Every evening at 9:05, Great Tom peals 101 times signifying the original number of students at Christchurch College.