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Dans le Colorado...

Chapel on the Rock, St. Malo
HISTORIC PRESERVATION,PLACESONE COMMENT
If you have driven along the Peak to Peak Highway to Estes Park, Colorado, you have certainly seen the dramatic Chapel of St. Malo, located below the towering peak of Mount Meeker.
“Upon this rock I shall build my Church” (Matt 16:18)

Monsignor Joseph Bosetti, after seeing a meteor fall in the area and searching for its remnants, was inspired by this beautiful, rugged site to pray for the funds to build a church. Twenty years of prayers later, the chapel was constructed with local stone from a design by architect Jacques Benedict. Benedict was a Beaux Arts-educated Denver architect with a long list of very accomplished buildings, many of Denver’s very best, including the Phipps Mansion in Denver, mentioned here in a post last week ( ). By all accounts Benedict was a difficult, eccentric architect, but also responsible for helping to raise money for many of the public buildings he worked on.

Unusual for Benedict, the building is a kind of mash-up of northern European medieval architecture and Romanesque details. Typically preferring Italian Renaissance models, Benedict let the rugged, rocky site dictate both the material and the design of the building. Maybe the then remote site evoked notions of Cistercian abbeys rather than the lighter, more delicate Greek and Roman revivals. Or just possibly, the cost and availability of producing dressed stone at this austere, wind-blown site limited Benedict to create a building of mass and weight, not so much springing up from the rocks as melding with them.

   

Oui, aux USA...

Iowa

   

   

Sud-est canadien....

   

Au Québec, plutôt vers le centre....