You’ll drive past this 360-square-foot Sonoma chapel unless someone tells you to stop

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It’s smaller than most living rooms

Pull off Highway 1 on California’s Sonoma Coast and you’ll find a building that doesn’t look like it belongs in this world.

A curving roof rises from a coastal meadow, somewhere between a breaking wave and a pair of folded wings. The whole place measures about 360 square feet.

You could drive right past it and never know what you missed. Most people who make the stop carry something from it for a long time.

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A chapel built in memory of a man who drew seashells

The chapel was dedicated in 1985, a gift from Sea Ranch residents Robert and Betty Buffum to their community…

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