Theodore Davis Boal

His parents had five children, three of whom lived past infancy, George Buttles, who died at age 17, Theodore, and his brother Montgomery Davis Boal.

[3] Due to his mother's ill health, he went to live with his Davis relatives[2] in Newport, Rhode Island and New York City during his childhood.

They designed the Lowell Elementary School in Colorado Springs and the St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Denver.

[1] Boal went to France to study architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Mathilde's aunt had married a descendant of Christopher Columbus giving the family a loose claim to a relationship with the explorer.

They lived in Tours de Chignon, France and Boal gave lectures about architecture to professional and society groups over a four-year period.

[6] In 1898, Boal returned to the United States and established an office in the Equitable Building in Denver.

[9]  In addition to the Chapel itself, he acquired numerous other heirlooms including documentation of the Columbus and Torquemada family’s records, Baroque and Renaissance oil paintings, an Admiral’s Desk believed to have belonged to Columbus himself, and two supposed pieces of the True Cross.

His son joined the cavalry and Boal organized military canteens and donated to French hospitals.

In April 1917, the Boal Troop was reconfigured as an infantry unit, Company A of the 107th Machine Gun Battalion, and deployed to France for service in World War I.