Denver Seminary

Denver Seminary’s original campus was the Bonfils family mansion. The mansion was purchased from Helen Bonfils for $55,000 in 1950 and housed the Seminary until 1968. A very prominent family in Denver, the Bonfils family owned the Denver Post. The mansion's rooms were converted to serve the purposes of the school:

• Bowling alley = bookstore.

• Wine cellar = storage room for library periodicals

• Theater = library reading and reference room

• Theater stage = library office

• Swimming pool = stacks and book storage (after being covered, of course)

• Billiard room = recreation room for students with ping-pong table

• Living room = chapel