The 15th-century
St. Joan of Arc Chapel was initially built in the village of
Chasse-sur-Rhône, France. Originally called the Chapelle de St. Martin de Seyssuel, it is said to have been the place at which
Joan of Arc prayed in 1429 after she had met King
Charles VII of France. The present name was given to the chapel when Gertrude Hill Gavin, the daughter of an American railroad magnate, had the derelict building dismantled, transported to America and rebuilt beside her
French Renaissance–style château in
Brookville, New York, in 1927. The chapel was undamaged when the château burned down in 1962, and was later given to
Marquette University in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, once more being transported stone by stone.
Photograph credit: Leroy Skalstad