Kalpana Kalpana (Editor)

Decker's Chapel

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
98001367

Added to NRHP
  
12 November 1998

Built
  
1856

Opened
  
1856

Decker's Chapel httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Location
  
Jct. Earth Rd. and PA 255, St. Marys, Pennsylvania

Architectural style
  
Greek Revival architecture

Similar
  
St Severin's Old Log, Bendigo State Park, Elk Mountain Winery, St Peter Cathedral, Elk County Historical Society

Decker s chapel project underway


Decker's Chapel is a historic chapel on Earth Road and PA 255 in St. Marys, Elk County, Pennsylvania within the Diocese of Erie.

Contents

Decker s chapel st marys pa 7 13 09


Description

It was built in 1856 and is a one story gable-end oriented and clapboard clad wood frame structure. It measures 12 feet by 18 feet and contains a single, plastered room. It features a rectangular steeple with an open belfry capped with a cross tipped, pyramidal roof. Also on the property is a granite commemorative marker dedicated in 1928 to Monsignor Michael Joseph Decker.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

References

Decker's Chapel Wikipedia