Fort Sherman Chapel
Coeur d’Alene, Kootenai County
- Grants: 1992, 1993, 2015, 2019 – painting of the floor
Location: 322 Hubbard, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho 83814
Built in 1880 by the U.S. Army as part of Fort Coeur d’Alene, the Fort Sherman Chapel is Coeur d’Alene’s oldest church, school, library and meeting hall. Its doors were open to both military and civilian personnel until the fort was abandoned in 1901. The building fell into disrepair and was nearly torn down until its acquisition by the Athletic Round Table nonprofit in 1942. It was rented to various congregations for several decades until the chapel was donated to the Museum of North Idaho in 1984.
The chapel hosts about twenty weddings per year, has a resident AA group, and is the site of many other community gatherings, events, and social functions, with all proceeds going to support further restoration and preservation of this lovely bit of Gothic Revival architecture.