Interior photograph of the altar and nave in the Chapel at St. Elizabeth's Retreat located in Denver, Colorado. The chapel was originally part of the Oakes Home for Consumptives founded by Rev. Frederick W. Oakes who served as the first and only superintendent and chaplin. Architect Frederick G. Sterner designed the 1903 building. The tuberculosis home closed in 1934 and the original buildings comprising the complex were razed in 1975 to allow for new construction, leaving the chapel as the only surviving original building. The complex claims to be the oldest tubercular home in Colorado and the second oldest in the nation.
Description
1 photographic slide: color, 2 x 2 in.
Subject
St. Elizabeth's Retreat (Denver, Colo.); Highland (Denver, Colo.); Religious facilities--Colorado--Denver.; Oakes Home (Denver, Colo.); Sanatoriums--Colorado--Denver.; Historic Buildings.; Historic preservation--Colorado--Denver.; Historic buildings--Colorado--Denver.; Architecture--Colorado--Denver--History.
Original photograph held by The Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, History Colorado
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