Captiva School and Chapel-by-the-Sea Historic District is a national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

located at

Captiva, Florida Captiva is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lee County, Florida, United States. It is located on Captiva Island. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census the population was 318, down from 583 at the 2010 ce ...

in Lee County. It includes an early one-room schoolhouse, built in 1901 and transformed into a Methodist mission church in 1921. It was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 2013.

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National Register of Historic Places in Lee County, Florida Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Florida Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Florida School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Florida 2013 establishments in Florida Captiva Island {{LeeCountyFL-NRHP-stub