Mead Memorial Chapel is a historic Episcopal

Episcopal Church (United States)

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 chapel

Chapel

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 at 2 Chapel Road in the hamlet of Waccabuc

Waccabuc, New York

Waccabuc is a hamlet and lake in Lewisboro, Westchester County, New York. It was first established as a vacation home for the Mead family, for whom the core road of the hamlet, Mead Street, is named...

, town of Lewisboro

Lewisboro, New York

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, Westchester County, New York

Westchester County, New York

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. It was designed by Hobart B. Upjohn

Hobart Upjohn

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 (1876-1949) and built in 1905-1906 in a late Gothic Revival

Gothic Revival architecture

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 style. It is a rectangular stone building with a steep slate

Slate

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 roof. A wing was added in 1929, known as Mead Memorial Hall, and it houses the Mead family archives. It features a bell tower

Bell tower

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 pierced by Gothic arch shaped louvered windows. It was built by Sarah Frances Studwell Mead as a memorial to her husband, George Washington Mead (1827-1899). The Mead family also owned the separately listed The Homestead

The Homestead (Waccabuc, New York)

The Homestead is a historic home located at Waccabuc, Westchester County, New York. It has five contributing buildings and one contributing structure. The main house, known as The Homestead, was built between 1820 and 1822 in the Federal style by the locally prominent Mead family. It has a four...

.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1999.