Establishment of St. Christopher’s Inn
St. Paul’s Friary, built in 1900, drew homeless men who came for housing and food. In the summer of 1909, these men who Father Paul called “Brothers Christopher” felled trees to build a chicken house. Father Paul, shortly thereafter, visited Washington, DC, and inspired by a photo of Abraham Lincoln’s log cabin, on the spot resolved to use the newly build chicken house to lodge the homeless men who sought shelter at Graymoor.