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Miraculous Spiral Staircase (St. Joseph, Loretto Chapel, Santa Fe, New Mexico)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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How to Build a Freestanding Double Spiral Staircase?

The name of Mr Roshas also appears in an 1881 daybook or account book of the Sisters of Loretto at Nairanks, Kentucky. Mary Cook believes that she's learned the specific details of how the staircase parts got from France to Santa Fe. The French carpenter's she spoke with all agreed that would have been a reasonable scenario. It may have been paid for when it was purchased, perhaps by Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lemie in France.

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