Mead Memorial Chapel is a historic

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at 2 Chapel Road in the hamlet of Waccabuc, town of

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. It was designed by Hobart B. Upjohn (1876-1949) and built in 1905–1906 in a late

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style. It is a rectangular stone building with a steep

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roof. A wing was added in 1929, known as Mead Memorial Hall, and it houses the Mead family

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. It features a

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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). ''See also:'' The Mead family also owned the separately listed The Homestead. It was added to the

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in 1999.

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