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Photograph of St. Katherine's Chapel
Photograph by Allen Stross, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Katherine's Chapel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“Katherine's Episcopal Chapel, is an historic Episcopal church building located at 4650 North Meridian Road in Williamston Township, near Williamston, Michigan, United States.”

Wikipedia article St. Katherine's Chapel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 55 National Register listings published here for Ingham County · listed in 1970 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 4650 Meridian Rd., E of East Lansing, East Lansing, 48895
  • When was it listed? July 1970
  • Category. building
  • Township. Williamstown township
  • Architectural style. Carpenter Gothic
  • National Register reference number. 70000272 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

22 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of St. Katherine's Chapel between 2018 and 2020, burning about 22 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMERIDIAN TOWNSHIP FD 1903752 - 2019
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMERIDIAN TOWNSHIP FD 1903338 - 2019
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMERIDIAN TOWNSHIP FD 1903267 - 2019
29 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMERIDIAN TOWNSHIP FD 1803121 - 2018
29 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resources18733 - 2018
28 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resources18732 - 2018
25 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMERIDIAN TOWNSHIP FD 1803065 - 2018
4 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMERIDIAN TOWNSHIP FD 1802388 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Ingham County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of St. Katherine's Chapel: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jolly Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Weaver Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ingham County

Storms near this property

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Lansing, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1997Thunderstorm WindEast Lansing$500,000A wet microburst occurred between 4:13 and 4:18 PM EDT during a severe thunderstorm moving across East Lansing. A team of 3 scientists from Michigan State University concluded the most severe storm damage occurred between the East Lansing Library and Hagadorn Road, while the damage path extended from roughly Harrison Road and Saginaw Street in an east-southeast direction to Park Lake Road and Grand River Avenue. The MSU geology professors determined damage patterns east of Hagadorn Road suggested that another pulse of air may have come down near Hagadorn and Cahill Drive. Damage consisted of downed trees and damaged roofs. Four homes received noticeable damage, mostly by being hit by trees. Three cars were crushed by falling trees. In addition, one utility pole was snapped and power lines were downed by falling trees, cutting power to 2,000 customers of Consumers Energy. Almost all trees fell to the east. Fallen trees blocked off many East Lansing streets after the storm. No injuries were reported.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindEast Lansing$250,000Numerous trees, limbs and power lines were brought down.
August 2003HailEast Lansing$100,000Numerous reports of large hail were received from across Ingham county, including reports of one inch hail in East Lansing, two miles east of East Lansing, and six miles northeast of Mason. A report of one inch hail was also received from three miles east of Mason. One and one half inch diameter hail was reported in Dansville and three miles east of Mason. One inch hail was also reported in Webberville.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindEast Lansing$10,000Several large trees were blown down along Durand and Bailey Streets in East Lansing. No significant structural damage was reported.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindEast Lansing$10,000Six inch diameter trees were downed in East Lansing.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindEast Lansing$500An 18" diameter tree was uprooted on Jolly Road in East Lansing.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindEast Lansing-Multiple trees and wires down.
July 1997Funnel CloudEast Lansing-The Meridian Township Public Safety Department relayed a civilian report of a funnel cloud near the intersection of Hagadorn and Haslett Roads. Thirty seconds after the civilian report was received, a Meridian Township officer spotted a funnel cloud travelling southeast over Okemos Road and Gaylord C. Smith Drive. The funnel cloud did not touch the ground and no damage was reported.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindEast Lansing-Trees downed.
April 1994HailEast Lansing-Nickel-sized hail was reported by East Lansing police.
April 1994HailEast Lansing-Hail of 0.75 inch was reported by an off duty weather service employee.

Every storm recorded in Ingham County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Goetsch-Winckler House4.0 miles1995
Williamston Downtown Historic District4.5 miles2012
Eustace Hall4.6 miles1971
Masonic Temple Building6.1 miles1999
Central School6.6 miles1986
Michigan State Medical Society Building6.6 miles2011

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 70000272 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ingham CountyAll 55 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.