El Torero Church

 

 

I chronicled the decline and demise of the historic little church out in the ranchlands.  Over a period of years, it went from this

 

To this

 

…to this.

 

 

It couldn’t be saved.

 

This little church used to be important.  It was built about 1920 out in sparsely populated ranch country, near the small town of San Luisto that no longer exists.  Until it was built, the closest church was ten miles away, in a time that much of the travel out there in the ranchlands was still by horse and buggy.

 

This last weekend Judy and I went on a driveabout on Highway 1017 planning to stop and see if there was anything left of the remains and found this.

 

A shiny new, almost completed, replacement in the style of the one they couldn’t save!

 

What a nice surprise.  They probably don’t really need a tiny little church like this out here now, but it was important enough to them to keep the history alive.