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Air Force Chapel Will Close September 3 for Three-Year Renovation
Westword ^ | Aug 30 2019 | Patricia Calhoun

Posted on 08/31/2019 7:05:21 PM PDT by rintintin

Colorado is full of many man-made marvels — some weird and wacky, like Swetsville Zoo, and others simply wondrous, such as the United States Air Force Academy Chapel in Colorado Springs. But if you want to see that particular marvel, plan on making a quick trip over Labor Day weekend: The chapel will close to the public on September 3 for a major renovation that is slated to last three years.

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1 posted on 08/31/2019 7:05:21 PM PDT by rintintin
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The chapel was designed in the late ’50s by Walter Netsch, then a 34-year-old architect with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; construction started in 1959, and it opened in 1962. The 150-foot-high aluminum, steel and glass structure earned raves from the start for its streamlined design that includes seventeen spires that look like jets streaming to the sky. It was named a National Historic Landmark in 2004.

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2 posted on 08/31/2019 7:08:09 PM PDT by rintintin
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If the Democrats take control it will never reopen.


3 posted on 08/31/2019 7:08:47 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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They want to remodel DIA also but the contractor there was dismissed after he wanted more time to remodel than it took to build the place in the first place.


4 posted on 08/31/2019 7:10:12 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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Colorado is full of many man-made marvels — some weird and wacky, like Swetsville Zoo.

Spelling error in the name?


5 posted on 08/31/2019 7:12:05 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: kaehurowing

Only as a diversified something or other christianmuzziehindubuddistjewishsatanistblubberdydub.


6 posted on 08/31/2019 7:12:24 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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will it be divided into sections to include wiccans msulimes and satan worshipers?
7 posted on 08/31/2019 7:12:27 PM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors, and come heavily armed!)
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3 years for a remodel?


8 posted on 08/31/2019 7:19:57 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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Minarets take time to build.


9 posted on 08/31/2019 7:32:48 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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Only the federal government with unlimited funds and resources could take three years to remodel a finite space.


10 posted on 08/31/2019 7:34:20 PM PDT by LukeL
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Trump could renovate that chapel in 4 months for 1/3 of the cost.


11 posted on 08/31/2019 7:36:15 PM PDT by Eddie01
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Trump should tell them they’ve got 9 months. If they can’t remodel a chapel in the time it takes to make a baby, he’ll take the money and use it to build more wall.


12 posted on 08/31/2019 8:25:07 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

I don’t think you are off base with that comment.


13 posted on 08/31/2019 8:26:32 PM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: rintintin

Step 1... remove all Christian symbols. Step 2.. reorient the chapel to face Mecca


14 posted on 09/01/2019 4:18:31 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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Attended a wedding at the AF Academy Chapel back in the late 1960’s. An afternoon thunderstorm (common along the front range in the summertime) had moved thru earlier ... bottom line the AF Chapel roof leaks leaving large puddles of water on the floor. That aside the AF Academy Chapel is very impressive.
15 posted on 09/01/2019 4:29:57 AM PDT by BluH2o
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It will definitely only reopen as a mosque. *spit*


16 posted on 09/01/2019 4:40:47 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (“They are openly stating that they intend to murder you. Prep if you want to live.”)
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