Stewart Hotel
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Evergreen Episcopal Conference District (Stewart Hotel)
1865. Colorado 74 (NRD)
Some twenty-two rustic structures make up this summer retreat center and church music school. Robert Stewart converted a gable-roofed frame bunk-house for sawmill laborers into a hotel for vacationers by adding two wings and dormers. The vertical slab siding, with an inlaid cross, was added in 1897 when builder John (Jock) Spence (see JF51) remodeled the building to accommodate the Mission of the Transfiguration (1899). Spence also added the 35-foot-high bell tower (1911) of large, unfinished pine logs topped by a Celtic cross which originally stood on the Church of the Holy Redeemer in New York City. The lovely little stone library (1921) on the campus became Evergreen's first public library. Stewart's Hotel was converted to a performing arts center for the Evergreen Players and the Jefferson Philharmonic.
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