Churches of the West

This is an unidentified, and likely abandoned Prairie Gothic church near the highway in Livermore, Colorado. I've been by this...

The spire of an unidentified church in downtown Houston, Texas, just before my phone battery died.

This abandoned church sits in a ranch yard just outside of Ft. Fred Steele in Carbon County, Wyoming.  I have no other information on i...

This is a church that has been converted into the Chugwater Branch Library, a branch of the Platte County Library, in Chugwater Wyoming....

This is an abandoned church in tiny Otto Wyoming.  I have no idea what the history of the church is, or when it was built, or what de...

This structure in Cody Wyoming was very obviously once a church, which is even more evident if you are closer to it and can see where so...

This is the location of a former church in North Casper, Wyoming.  Now its the site of Food For Thought, a charitable organization in Ca...

Private churches or chapels were once common in England, but they're rare in the United States, and particularly rare in the Western ...

These are terrible photographs, but they sort of demonstrate a current trend in American life. This is a very large church, just off of...

Unidentified Prairie Gothic style church in Hanna, Wyoming.

This is an old Prairie Gothic style church in Medicine Bow, Wyoming, but other than that, I don't know anything about it. All phot...

Surprising effort at converting a house into a church, located in Casper Wyoming. The architecture here also leans on Byzantine elements.

I don't know, or no longer know, the denomination of this church in the rural town of Elk Mountain, Wyoming. This is, in part, because...

This is a terrible photograph, but it was taken fro a moving vehicle and it was my only opportunity to take the photo. This church was obv...

This building was obviously built as a church, and apparently is no longer used as one. I don't know anything else about it, other tha...

Central Denver has a large number of traditional styled churches, of which this is one. Taken from my pickup truck window while stopped at ...