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Christ of the Rockies

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1934. U.S. 285, 13 miles west of Bailey

This railroad stop, originally named in 1885 for DSP&P agent David N. Cassells, became a Catholic summer camp called Santa Maria. On the hill behind the camp the statue of Christ, made by Denver's Northwestern Terra Cotta Company, stands 33 feet high on a 22-foot-high pedestal, second in size only to the Cristo in Rio de Janeiro. It is a colossal copy of a statue by New York sculptor Harriet Frismuth for the John K. Mullen family plot in Mount Olivet Cemetery near Golden.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Thomas J. Noel
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Citation

Thomas J. Noel, "Christ of the Rockies", [Bailey, Colorado], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/CO-01-PK15.

Print Source

Buildings of Colorado, Thomas J. Noel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, 217-217.

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