Chapel of St. Mary the Virgin

Built in 1862 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“Mary the Virgin is a Gothic Revival-styled church completed in 1866 near Nashotah, Wisconsin - part of the Episcopal Nashotah House seminary. The chapel's design has been attributed to James Douglas and Richard Upjohn.”
Wikipedia article Chapel of St. Mary the Virgin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 153 National Register listings published here for Waukesha County · listed in 1972 · category: Building · built in 1862, Gothic Revival.

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 mi. SW of Nashotah on Nashotah House Rd., Nashotah
When was it listed? February 1972
Category. building
City. Delafield city
When was it built? 1862
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 72000067 - 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

18 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Chapel of St. Mary the Virgin between 2018 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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	7
Debris and open burning	7
Arson/incendiarism	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
21 September 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1802995
16 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	381
19 July 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1839
30 June 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1801911
28 May 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	190
2 May 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	125
1 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	124
4 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1800908

Every fire recorded in Waukesha 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 Chapel of St. Mary the Virgin: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
North Sawyer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Silver Lake Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Vogt Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Vulcan Dousman Pit 422	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Waukesha County

Storms near this property

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nashotah, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. 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
June 1998	Lightning	Nashotah	$5,000	no account filed
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashotah	$500	A tree down.
October 2022	Tornado (EF0)	Nashotah	-	Short lived, weak tornado lofted considerable leaf debris. Multiple public reports of a funnel and debris in the air heading eastbound on Highway 16 east of Highway C and near the intersection of Highways 16 and 83.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashotah	-	Strong wind gusts with a cluster of thunderstorms.
September 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashotah	-	Law enforcement officials reported trees and power lines blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 knots (81 mph).
May 2025	Hail	Nashotah	-	no account filed
September 2021	Hail	Nashotah	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waukesha 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
Bishopstead	0.8 miles	1984
St. John's Military Academy	1.6 miles	1977
St. John Chrysostom Church	1.7 miles	1972
Delafield Fish Hatchery	1.8 miles	1981
Hawks Inn	1.9 miles	1972
Okauchee House	2.2 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000067 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Waukesha County	All 153 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.