# St. Francis of Assisi Church (1888)

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-francis-of-assisi-church-1888/
- Also known as: the Old Stone Church
- Kind: Churches
- Status: Living today
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.3721, -104.8611 (from a cited description (good to a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-07

## What we know

Rhyolite church dedicated Dec. 16, 1888, built by its members for $1,000; founding members included the lawyer William Dillon and German Catholic families from southeast of Castle Rock. Regular services only from 1930. The parish left in the early 1960s and the building became a restaurant (county map, S-0123).

## Where it was

Pin on the Douglas County Historic Resource Map (DCHR-065; 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

- [Castle Rock Grange No. 62](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/castle-rock-grange-no-62/): 0.1 mi northeast
- [Douglas County Courthouse (1889)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/douglas-county-courthouse-1889/): 0.1 mi northeast
- [First National Bank and Masonic Building](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/first-national-bank-and-masonic-building/): 0.1 mi east
- [Goldenrod Grange No. 192](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/goldenrod-grange-no-192/): 0.1 mi east
- [Castle Rock Creamery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/castle-rock-creamery/): 0.1 mi north
- [Keystone Hotel](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/keystone-hotel/): 0.1 mi northeast

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