Then vs. now, Kirkpatrick Chapel #TBT. The building was constructed to house the college's chapel as well as its library. There were just four bays in the old chapel. The library took up about half of the structure. The reading area stretched the length of the structure, surrounded by book stacks on both sides. The library was open from roughly 1880 until the construction of Voorhees Hall in 1904. The library was transferred to Voorhees Hall once it was built. The chapel was utilized for regular worship services for the men of Rutgers College for roughly the first 50 years of its existence. The chapel was used less frequently for regular worship services as time went on, and increasingly for special events such as talks, seminars, and classes.