Handy Chapel, Grand Junction, Colorado 1892 39.069514 -108.569330 202 White Avenue Grand Junction Mesa Colorado 81501 USA https://www.google.com/maps/place/202+White+Ave,+Grand+Junction,+CO+81501/@39.069451,-108.571487,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8 Google Map link for 202 White Avenue Built in 1892, it is the only surviving building of all the town’s original churches. It was built on four lots deeded to the African-American community of Grand Junction for $1 by the Grand Junction Town Company. The congregation was long affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The property contained the chapel (with a piano), a parsonage, and two rentals. Renovations and maintenance were primarily done by the pastor and his family. Maintained a small church library. Services were in a state of suspension in 1981, with members meeting in their homes, due to the small size of the congregation and the need for renovation. Due to a campaign by Josephine Dickey and others, the chapel was renovated and placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The chapel celebrated its centennial with a thanksgiving service on September 27, 1992. Historically, the Handy Chapel would aid not only African-Americans in need when they came through town, providing them work and a place to sleep if they could find no one willing to accommodate them, but also poor whites in need of assistance. In 1982, it began hosting what is now an annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration, organized by the Black Citizens and Friends organization. yes yes http://coloradopreservation.org/programs/endangered-places/handy-chapel/Colorado Preservation entry for Handy Chapel