Saint Mary's Chapel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“Saint Mary's Chapel, also known as Saint Mary's Episcopal Church, is a historic Episcopal church located on Rushmore Avenue between Roslyn Avenue and Glen Cove Avenue in Carle Place, in Nassau County, New York, United States.”
Wikipedia article Saint Mary's Chapel (Carle Place, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 2005 · 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. Rushmore Ave. bet Roslyn Ave. and Glen Cove Ave., Carle Place, 11514
When was it listed? April 2005
Category. building
Town. North Hempstead town
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 05000270 - 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

1,257 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,257 fires within 5 miles of Saint Mary's Chapel between 2000 and 2020, burning about 529 acres in total. 74 started naturally. 116 were 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/undetermined	776
Smoking	142
Arson/incendiarism	116
Natural	74
Equipment and vehicle use	56
Power generation/transmission/distribution	34
Debris and open burning	24
Misuse of fire by a minor	18
Recreation and ceremony	15
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
9 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
7 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this property

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carle Place, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Carle Place	$7,500	Numerous trees and wires were reported down in Westbury. Some trees fell on fences.
July 2019	Lightning	Carle Place	$6,000	Lightning struck a garage on Bert Avenue near the Carle Place and Westbury border.
September 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Carle Place	$1,000	Tree down on Meadowbrook State Parkway southbound at Exit M3 - Steward Avenue.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Carle Place	$1,000	A large tree was downed.
July 2003	Hail	Carle Place	-	A trained spotter reported quarter size hail along the Carle Place - Garden City border.
May 2002	Hail	Carle Place	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nassau County

Maps showing this location

13 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1897 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500 - 15 printings
1947 USGS Hicksville quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Hicksville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Hicksville quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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
East Williston Village Historic District	1.6 miles	1985
Nassau County Courthouse	1.6 miles	2021
US Post Office-Mineola	1.6 miles	1989
Old Westbury Gardens	1.7 miles	1976
Mitchel Air Base and Flight Line	1.8 miles	2018
Old Nassau County Courthouse	1.8 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000270 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nassau County	All 156 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.
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.