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Smith Chapel
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
NH State Register of Historic Places
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Location	45 Mill Pond Road, Durham, New Hampshire
Coordinates	43°07′42″N 70°55′27″W / 43.12833°N 70.92417°W / 43.12833; -70.92417
Area	1.84 acres (0.74 ha)
Built	1900 (1900)
Architectural style	Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.	13000009
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	February 13, 2013
Designated NHSRHP	April 29, 2013

Smith Chapel is a historic memorial chapel at 45 Mill Pond Road in Durham, New Hampshire, United States. Built in 1900 in the family cemetery of the locally prominent Smith family, it is a prominent local example of Late Gothic Revival architecture. It is now part of a small municipal park. The chapel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in February 2013, and the New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places in April 2013.

Description and history

Smith Chapel is located in a small park about 2 acres (0.81 ha) in size, overlooking the Oyster River. Its setting was originally near the rear of the 70-acre (28 ha) summer estate of the Smith family, which has since been subdivided into a residential area. It is a single-story rectangular structure, built out of rusticate granite stone blocks quarried locally. It is covered by a steeply pitched gable roof, and has buttressed corners. The sides of the chapel each have two Gothic windows, while one of the gable ends houses the entrance, also topped by a lancet window. The opposite gable has a larger window. All of the windows have stained glass designs by Redding and Baird of Boston, Massachusetts. The interior continues the Gothic features, with scissor trusses supporting the roof, and a shallow altar.

The chapel was built on the site of the family cemetery of the locally prominent Smith family by Alice Smith in 1900 as a memorial to her recently deceased husband, Hamilton Smith, a wealthy mining engineer. Its architect is unknown. The property, including the small cemetery in which both family members and pets are interred, remained in the family until 1979, when it was donated to the town.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Strafford County, New Hampshire

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. ^ "New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places". New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
3. ^ "NRHP nomination for Smith Chapel" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved August 15, 2014.

v t e National Register of Historic Places in Strafford County, New Hampshire
National Historic Landmark	Gen. John Sullivan House
Historic districts	Cocheco Mills Durham Historic District Rochester Commercial and Industrial District Salmon Falls Mill Historic District Sawyer Woolen Mills
Historic properties	Back River Farm Canaan Chapel County Farm Bridge Farmington Town Pound First Congregational Church First Parish Church First Parish Church Site-Dover Point Forest Glade Cemetery Free Will Baptist Church Garrison Hill Park and Tower Green Street School Jenness Farm Lehoullier Building Michael Reade House Milton Town House New Durham Meetinghouse and Pound New Durham Town Hall Plumer-Jones Farm Plummer Homestead Public Market Queensbury Mill Religious Society of Friends Meetinghouse Richard Hayes House Rollinsford Grade School Rollinsford Town Hall Samuel Wyatt House Sawyer Building Smith Chapel Somersworth High School St. Thomas Episcopal Church Strafford County Farm Strafford Union Academy Thompson Hall US Post Office-Dover Main US Post Office-Somersworth Main William Hale House Wiswall Falls Mills Site Woodbury Mill Woodman Institute
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Strafford County, New Hampshire and List of National Historic Landmarks in New Hampshire

• Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
• Gothic Revival church buildings in New Hampshire
• Churches completed in 1900
• Churches in Strafford County, New Hampshire
• Buildings and structures in Durham, New Hampshire
• National Register of Historic Places in Strafford County, New Hampshire
• New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places
• Chapels in the United States