# Ruth Memorial Chapel

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ruth-memorial-chapel/

- Kind: Churches
- Status: Living today
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.518, -104.7601 (from a cited description (good to a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-07

## What we know

Services began in the Pine Grove School in the 1870s. The chapel, named for Dr. Walter Heath's daughter Ruth, who died young, was begun in 1913 (Dr. Heath died before it was finished) and served the Parker Methodists until the 1970s; National Register, 1989 (county map, S-0123).

## Where it was

Pin on the Douglas County Historic Resource Map (DCHR-063; Douglas County and Douglas County Libraries, 2012, on the Larkspur Historical Society's Google map, S-0123). Where that map and ours place the same site, the pins mostly fall within about 300 feet. Good to a few hundred feet.

Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.

## Sources

- S-0045: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0045
- S-0046: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0046
- S-0123: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0123

## Nearby

- [Parker Consolidated School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/parker-consolidated-school/): 0.0 mi west
- [Parker](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/parker/): 0.1 mi northwest
- [Parker depot (Denver & New Orleans)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/parker-depot-denver-and-new-orleans/): 0.1 mi northwest
- [Ave Maria Catholic Church (Parker)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ave-maria-catholic-church-parker/): 0.1 mi west
- [Englewood (1889 plat, Parker)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/englewood-1889-plat-parker/): 0.4 mi southwest
- [Pine Grove School (Parker)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-grove-school-parker/): 0.4 mi west

Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0.