The entrance canopy aligns the approach on the desired axis to the Cathedral Group and provides shelter to the chain-operated bell.

[7] The chapel was built to serve guests and employees of the dude ranches that stretched north of Jackson along the base of the Teton Range.

The land was donated by Maud Noble, owner of nearby Menor's Ferry, predating the establishment of Grand Teton National Park in 1929 and its expansion into the Moose area in 1950.

The design was based on Our Father's House at the St. Michael's Mission in Ethete on the Wind River Indian Reservation.

[7] It played a primary role in the movie Spencer's Mountain, which was filmed in Jackson Hole in 1963, and featured Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara.