Amasa Stone Chapel is used for lectures, annual honors assemblies, and ceremonial events of all kinds. (The pronunciation is A'-ma-sa.). This dignified Gothic chapel was designed by Henry Vaughn, a Boston architect who made a career of recreating English gothic chapels in America. It was given by Clara Stone Hay, wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Hay, and Flora Stone Mather as a memorial to their father, Amasa Stone. Over the southeast entrance is a bust of Stone, originally one of a set used as keystones in the arches of Cleveland's Union Depot, which Stone built on West Ninth Street in 1866. The sculpture to the east, between Amasa Stone Chapel and Baker Building, is Morning Star, by Jon Barlow Hudson; it was given by the Andrews-Foundation to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the removal of the college from Hudson to Cleveland (1982).

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