This chapel is famous. It seems that the Sisters had a chapel and choir loft built in the late 1800's based on a chapel in France. Near the end of the building it was realized that they had neglected to build stairs. They had a beautiful chapel and a beautiful loft but no way to get from one to another. They prayed a novena to St. Joseph and on the last day, as legend goes, a man with a donkey showed up. He built the stairs and left without being paid.
The stairs are 22 feet high, there are 33 stairs, they make two 360* turns, have no center supporting beam, really no support except where they attach at top and bottom. Originally there were no banisters but the sisters asked for those to be added. Oh - and it is all built with wooden pegs instead of nails. 
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