Addition to St. John's Church

1419 Pine Street/ Hobart D. Wagener architect/ Expressionist style/ built 1965

This small chapel is one of several buildings on the MCM tour by the architecture firm of Hobart Wagener. He moved from Portland, Oregon to Boulder in the early 1950s and became a lead designer at the office of James Hunter. After a few years, he started his own company which became a prolific Modernist design company, producing over 200 innovative buildings in Boulder. The designs often had expressive roofs in a variety of shapes.

The chapel is an example of one of these roofs in a classic, pyramidal shape. It is supported on a base of rugged blocks of sandstone. The entry has beautiful stained-glass windows and double doors with abstract artistic details. The original design included a skylight at the roof apex similar to the Atrium Building, also on the tour, but it was not built.