Photograph of Church of Saint Mary the Virgin — Photograph by Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Church of Saint Mary the Virgin and Greeley Grove

Built in 1904 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“The Church of Saint Mary the Virgin is an Episcopal church located on South Greeley Avenue in Chappaqua, New York, United States. The church reported 412 members in 2017 and 124 members in 2023; no membership statistics were reported nationally in 2024 parochial reports.”
Wikipedia article Church of Saint Mary the Virgin (Chappaqua, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1904, Gothic Revival.

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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 191 South Greeley Ave., Chappaqua, 10514
When was it listed? April 1979
Category. building
Also known as. Greeley, Horace TR
Town. New Castle town
When was it built? 1904
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 79003213 - 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

490 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 490 fires within 5 miles of Church of Saint Mary the Virgin and Greeley Grove between 2000 and 2020, burning about 407 acres in total. 69 started naturally. 26 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	222
Natural	69
Smoking	45
Debris and open burning	39
Recreation and ceremony	39
Equipment and vehicle use	26
Arson/incendiarism	26
Power generation/transmission/distribution	20
Misuse of fire by a minor	4

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
8 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2016	Debris and open burning	3.8 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2008	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Church of Saint Mary the Virgin and Greeley Grove: 6 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Vanadium, Lead, Copper, Silver, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Armonk Plant	Peat	Past Producer	Peat
Ossining Area	Vanadium, Lead	Occurrence	Vanadinite
Sing Sing Ag Mine	Lead, Silver, Iron, Copper	Past Producer
Sing Sing Silver Mine	Lead, Copper, Silver, Iron, Chromium, Phosphorus-Phosphates	Past Producer	Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Silver
Ackerman's Limonite Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Limonite
Ackerman's Limonite Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Residual
Ackerman's Limonite Mine	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this property

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chappaqua, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 4 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappaqua	$3,000	New York Route 120 was closed between Pine Cliff and Commodore Roads due to downed trees and tree limbs in the town of Chappaqua.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappaqua	$1,000	Tree down on NY 120 at Commodore Road.
September 2023	Flash Flood	Chappaqua	-	Route 117 closed due to flooding between Orchard Road and North Way.
July 2014	Flash Flood	Chappaqua	-	North Greeley Ave. was closed in Chappaqua due to flooding.
July 2008	Flash Flood	Chappaqua	-	The Saw Mill River Parkway was impassable at exit 32. A Skywarn spotter in the town of Chappaqua recorded 1.17 inches of rainfall in 45 minutes between 7 and 8 pm.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappaqua	-	Investigation of the damage by a NWS Meteorologist determined that the damage that occurred was also the result of straight line winds. Estimated wind speeds were at least 70 mph. The most widespread damage observed was from Chappaqua to Bedford Hills to Pound ridge.\|
August 2011	Hail	Chappaqua	-	no account filed
May 1996	Flash Flood	Chappaqua	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Westchester County

Maps showing this location

15 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.

1892 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1902 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1936 USGS Ossining quadrangle1:24000
1937 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Ossining quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1943 USGS Ossining quadrangle1:25000
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Ossining quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Ossining quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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
Rehoboth	0.2 miles	1979
Chappaqua Railroad Depot and Depot Plaza	0.2 miles	1979
Greeley House	0.2 miles	1979
Old Chappaqua Historic District	1.1 miles	1974
Marmaduke Forster House	1.6 miles	2011
St. John's Episcopal Church	1.6 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79003213 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Westchester County	All 250 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.