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Taylor Memorial Chapel

El Paso County, US

Taylor Memorial Chapel

<think>Let me analyze the material carefully and create a narration for the Taylor Memorial Chapel. Key facts from the material: 1. Built in 1929 as a memorial to Frederick Morgan Pike Taylor (husband of Alice Bemis Taylor) 2. Designed by John Gaw Meem - "Santa Fe Style" 3. Located in Black Forest,

Colorado at La Foret Conference and Retreat Center 4. National Register of Historic Places 5. Built on Taylor's summer home property 6. Was Alice Taylor's private place of worship until 1942 when she died 7. Donated to United Church of Christ's Rocky Mountain Conference in 1944 8. Restored with $120,000 State Historic Fund grant 9. Pueblo chapel with walled courtyard near a ravine in Ponderosa pine forest 10. Stuccoed walls, log vigas 11. Bell from "an old mission church in New Mexico" 12. Two-storied building with double carved wooden doors 13. Altar and north and south transepts with side porches 14. Eugenie Shonnard carved 20-foot reredos of seven saints 15. Archways to transepts with "rough hewn wood carvings" 16. Altar, pulpit, lectern, and other furnishings carved by Shonnard 17. Above log vigas: herringbone pattern made of Aspen saplings 18. Flagstone flooring 19. Spiral staircase to second story for additional seating 20. Bainbridge Bunting quote about the chapel being Meem's first essay in traditional church form (1928 commission) 21. The woodwork more elaborately carved than any mission church 22. Reflects Taylor's values of piety, simplicity, passion for Southwestern art

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