 Construction materials, labor and funds were provided by local ranchers.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.The chapel was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 10, 1980 The somewhat larger Chapel of the Sacred Heart was built in the park in similar rustic style near Signal Mountain by the Our Lady of the Mountains Catholic Church of Jackson in 1958.