Chapel of the Veterans in Leavenworth Kansas Acrylic Print

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A window detail in the Chapel of the Veterans, shot using available light in the morning.

The chapel was built in 1893 and was designed the by Louis Curtis of Kansas City, and inspired by a Gothic chapel that he had seen being renovated in England. The Chapel is constructed from unusually long, thin clay bricks and sandstone. The tower has eleven tubular bells and three gargoyles.

At the time it was built, the complex it served was known as the Western Branch National Home of Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. For many years the Chapel of the Veterans was the only church in the United States where Protestant and Catholic religious services could be conducted under one roof at the same time, and the chapel was featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not.

The lower level of the Chapel of the Veterans, with an entrance on the end, is the Catholic chapel named the Holy Ghost Chapel. The upper level is the Protestant chapel called Immanuel Chapel.

Hello, Thank you for viewing my work or making a purchase, I'm truly grateful. I'm a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute. I worked in high volume labs printing in a darkroom before moving to Dallas, Texas, working in the photo district in a custom BW lab, printing murals and linens for artists all over the world. I later worked as a photographers assistant in commercial fashion and product shoots in studio and on location and in-studio labs. After becoming ill, I returned to my hometown. The whole world went digital and did not wait for me. I'd started to think this part of my life had passed. I worked countless jobs over the years and they left marks. Being a taxi cab driver was an up close and personal study of the human...