Thousand Island Park Chapel


Year Built:  1912 
Architectural Style: 
National Register:
 Contributing
Use Type: Public
Lot Number: 414.5
911 Number: 42830
Street: St. Lawrence Avenue
Address:  {44.28729883079131,-76.02621505522536} 
Structure Status:  

Description & Additional Information


Two-story building with concrete block exterior, in two distinct parts: front-gabled chapel at left, hip-roofed former school, now administration building, recessed at right, with two-story tower between the two. Combination of multiple concrete block sizes and textures: rock-faced foundation in a one-height coursed ashlar pattern, paneled quoins, smooth band at the water table, and rock-faced walls in a two-height broken ashlar pattern. Window sills and lintels are smooth concrete block. Chapel wing: two-story tower with steep pyramidal roof topped by a metal weathervane, at southeast corner; main entrance to chapel is in front (west) wall of tower, consisting of a six-panel wood door with simple rectangular transom; stained glass in transom reads “TIP Chapel.” West of tower, on gable end, are two widely spaced operable one-over-one stained-glass windows at first floor, paired one-over-one wood windows at second floor. North side of the chapel: regularly spaced series of four pairs of one-over-one stained-glass windows. East side: three one-over-one wood windows; center window wider than those to either side. Former school / current office wing, south and east of chapel wing: from the southeast, this wing resembles a one and one-half story house with a cross-gable roof. Partial-width porch on east side with round wood columns, no rail, and hipped porch roof. porch shelters door at center, one one-over-one wing to either side. Three narrow windows over porch. South side: six one-over-one windows at first floor, two paired and two single one-over-one windows at second floor, flush cross-gable. Entrance at the left (west) end of this side of the building is a simple wood door sheltered by entrance porch with slender square wood columns supporting a flat roof; porch is accessed by wood stairs running to east and west with pipe rail.

History: Built following the 1912 fire as the third chapel on this site, the building was also used as a school. It now houses the Thousand Island Park Corporation offices in the former school wing, and remains a chapel and public gathering space.

Location within Thousand Island Park


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