Shove Memorial Chapel

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Shove Memorial Chapel
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Location1010 N. Nevada Ave., Colorado Springs, Colorado
Coordinates 38°50′52″N104°49′16″W / 38.84778°N 104.82111°W / 38.84778; -104.82111
Built1930-31
ArchitectJohn Grey
Architectural styleRomanesque
NRHP reference No. 05000426
Added to NRHPMay 22, 2005

The Shove Memorial Chapel is a church located in downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, that was designed by John Grey and built from 1930 to 1931. The church has been on the National Register of Historic Places since May 22, 2005, and is of Norman Romanesque style. [1] [2]

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John Grey, the architect, made a very comprehensive plan of the church, and hired various craftsmen from around the country to apply the detail he wanted. The church is made from Bedford limestone mined and cut in Indiana, and Robert Garrison designed gargoyles and exterior sculptures around the building. Robert E. Wade painted the ornate roof inside the chapel, and Joseph Reynolds Jr. designed the stained glass windows. [1]

Despite being built in the middle of the Great Depression, it is widely considered to be one of the finest examples of Norman Romanesque architecture in the state of Colorado. [3] The chapel is now located on the grounds of Colorado College.

On the master bell of the chapel, Westminster quarter chimes cast in Croydon, England, there is an engraving of a statement by poet Kahlil Gibran: "Yesterday is but today's memory, an tomorrow is today's dream." [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Shove Memorial Chapel | History Colorado". www.historycolorado.org. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
  2. "NPGallery Asset Detail". npgallery.nps.gov. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
  3. "Shove Memorial Chapel • Colorado College". www.coloradocollege.edu. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
  4. Young, Barbara (1945). This man from Lebanon. New York: Alfred Knopf. p. 183.

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