Retreat Chapel & Monaghan Hall

This is a serene scene at the White House Retreat Center, looking toward the chapel on the left and, beyond it, Monaghan Hall, which houses the dining room and the library. On warm, sunny days, retreatants often sit out on the Adirondack chairs or on Monaghan Hall’s patio benches facing the Mississippi River valley for scriptural or spiritual reading, prayer, meditation – and maybe a little sunning.