Completed 1939

The Little Chapel in the Woods was the firm's first architectural commission. It stands on the campus of what was then the College of Industrial Arts, a women's vocational college. O'Neil Ford and partner Arch Swank submitted plans and a model for the invited competition and were selected as the project's architects. The modestly scaled chapel was designed around a series of parabolic masonry arches which were used as formwork for reinforced concrete arches.

The project utilized student labor intensively, involving a total of 500 students by the time the project was completed. The National Youth Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps also participated in the construction. Female artisans at the college produced the metal light fixtures and stained glass panels. Ford's brother, Lynn Ford, supervised the students who produced the woodcarvings in the interior of the chapel.