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The next permanent structure to be built
on the hill was Bexley Hall, situated facing Old Kenyon at the far end
of the plateau, with almost exactly one mile separating the two
buildings' front doors. At least one historian has suggested that Chase
was inspired by the U.S. Constitution in his plan to so separate his
seminary from his college. With support obtained from Nicholas
Vansittart, Lord Bexley, by Charles Pettit McIlvaine, Chase's successor
as bishop of Ohio and president of the College, the distinguished
English architect Henry Roberts was engaged in 1835 to design the
building. The cornerstone was not laid until 1839, however, because the
funds for the building's construction were needed elsewhere. Although
it was first occupied in 1843, Bexley Hall was not completed until 1858.
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