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Location

Loretto Chapel

2 productions

Plan your visit

This location may require tickets or have set hours.

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Access notes

Home of the spiral staircase built without a central support. Now a private museum with an admission fee; occasionally closed for weddings.

Parking

Paid parking nearby; walkable from the Plaza.

Filmed Here

What Was Filmed Here

Hostiles· 2017

The chapel interior

No approved image yetThen
The spiral wooden staircase inside Loretto Chapel.Now
The staircase, built without a central support.Giewiz · CC BY-SA 4.0

What happened here

The chapel's Gothic Revival interior and its spiral staircase appear in period sequences. It is a museum now, with an admission fee.

Trivia

The staircase has no central support and no nails, which is why it draws visitors independently of any film.

The Staircase· 1998

The spiral stair

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Exterior of Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe, New MexicoNow
Camerafiend · CC BY-SA 3.0

What happened here

The television film dramatises the building of the chapel's helix staircase, which turns two full circles with no central column and no visible means of support.

Trivia

The staircase is still in the chapel and still unsupported; visitors may see it but not climb it.

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