OUR LADY OF THE SNOW (1969)

This is the only Catholic church in Colorado with an Episcopal flag guarding the altar. Allen du Pont Breck explains why in The Episcopal Church in Colorado, which reports that St. John Episcopal Church started out in Granby in 1958 in a refitted building. In 1962, the Episcopalians replaced this secondhand chapel with a new $15,000 church whose nave and sanctuary were formed by "A-frame" beams covered with exposed knotty pine. A folding partition enabled the rear of the church to be used as a parish house.

This chapel also became home for Granby's Catholic parish, which since 1952 had been holding services in the Chuck Wagon Restaurant. The congregation gladly pays $200 a month to the Episcopalians in order to worship in a conventional church. Monsignor Thomas P. Barry, who helped establish the Granby parish, has his summer retirement home there. Summers, he offers the 7 A.M. Sunday Mass, which allows him to spend the rest of the day fishing.

The current pastor of Our Lady of the Snow is H. Robert White, who travels from his resident parish, St. Anne's in Grand Lake, to offer year-round 10:30 Sunday Masses (and coffee afterwards) in Granby's St. John Episcopal Church.