100-year-old Diocese of Tucson chapel wins preservation awards

The 100-year-old Our Lady’s Chapel on the St. Augustine Cathedral campus downtown won three historic preservation awards.

The restoration of the chapel, which opened last fall after months of work, won the Governor’s Heritage Preservation Honor Award June 16. From that pool of winners, the project was selected to receive the James W. Garrison Heritage Award.

In May, the renovated chapel also won a Tucson-Pima County Historical Commission Historic Preservation Award.

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The chapel had seen use as a dance hall, gym and office space and more recently as storage before its restoration.

The $880,000 cost came from private donors and money raised by the Catholic Foundation, according to press materials.