Mead Memorial Chapel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Mead Memorial Chapel is a historic Episcopal chapel at 2 Chapel Road in the hamlet of Waccabuc, town of Lewisboro, Westchester County, New York. Upjohn (1876-1949) and built in 1905-1906 in a late Gothic Revival style.”
Wikipedia article Mead Memorial Chapel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1999 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2 Chapel Rd., Lewisboro, 10597
When was it listed? November 1999
Category. building
Town. Lewisboro town
Architect. Hobart Upjohn
National Register reference number. 99001443 - 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.

Then and now

1892 to 1998

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Mead Memorial Chapel, surveyed 1998

Topographic sheet covering Mead Memorial Chapel, surveyed 1892

Fires near this property

138 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Mead Memorial Chapel between 2000 and 2020, burning about 92 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 9 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	72
Natural	15
Smoking	13
Power generation/transmission/distribution	11
Debris and open burning	10
Arson/incendiarism	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
23 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2005	Natural	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Mead Memorial Chapel: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Feldspar, Quartz, Marble, Dimension. 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
Pegmatite Quarry	Mica, Quartz	Past Producer
Ridgefield Pegmatite Quarry	Feldspar, Quartz	Past Producer	Feldspar
Ridgefield Quarry	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer
Brewster Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Somers Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working 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 Carmel quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Carmel quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Carmel quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1928 USGS Carmel quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1945 USGS Peach Lake quadrangle1:24000
1945 USGS Peach Lake quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1946 USGS Peach Lake quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Peach Lake quadrangle1:24000 - 7 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
1998 USGS Peach Lake quadrangle1:24000

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
Waccabuc Historic District	0.5 miles	2015
Homestead, The	0.9 miles	2001
North Salem Town Hall	2.3 miles	1980
Osborn-Bouton-Mead House	2.7 miles	2004
Somers Hamlet Historic District	2.7 miles	2004
South Salem Presbyterian Church Cemetery	2.8 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001443 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.