Christ Church Chapel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Christ Church Chapel is a religious building located at 61 Grosse Pointe Blvd. in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. It is also known as the Christ Church Grosse Pointe or the Christ Episcopal Church.”
Wikipedia article Christ Church Chapel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 396 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 61 Grosse Pointe Rd., Grosse Pointe Farms, 48236
When was it listed? September 1993
Category. building
City. Grosse Pointe Farms city
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 93000424 - 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

49 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Christ Church Chapel between 2018 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 6 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
Debris and open burning	18
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
27 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0034676 - 2019
22 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0034155 - 2019
6 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0027928 - 2019
4 August 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0027607 - 2019
30 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST CLAIR SHORES FD 0005454 - 2018
25 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0030316 - 2019
24 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0030178 - 2019
14 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0029062 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Wayne 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Grosse Pointe High School	under 500 feet	1993
Grosse Pointe Memorial Church	0.2 miles	1993
Beverly Road Historic District	0.2 miles	1995
Grosse Pointe Central Library	0.3 miles	2021
Paul Harvey Deming House	0.3 miles	1996
Pere Gabriel Richard Elementary School	0.3 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93000424 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne County	All 396 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.