The Saint Joan of Arc Chapel is believed to have been originally
constructed in the early 1500s. Known as the Chapelle de St.
Martin de Sayssuel, it was located in Chasse, a small village in
the Rhone River Valley. After the French Revolution the small
chapel fell into disarray and was neglected until Jacques
Couëlle discovered it not long after the end of World War I. In
1926 the chapel was purchased by Mrs. Gertrude Hill Gavin, who
arranged for the transfer of the building to her estate on Long
Island, NY. In 1927 John Russell Pope drew up reconstruction
plans for the chapel, adding the early Gothic altar and the Joan
of Arc stone, alleged to be a stone that Joan of Arc kissed
after she stood upon it to pray to a statue of Our Lady. It is
said ever since that it is colder than the stones surrounding
it. At the reconstruction Mrs. Gavin had Charles J. Connick of
Boston design and install four stained glass windows that
resemble ones of Sainte Chapelle in Paris. In 1962 Mr. and Mrs.
Marc B. Rojtman purchased